A small South American crake with a russet crown and cinnamon underparts.
The crown is russet, the sides of the head gray, the upperparts olive-brown, the throat buff, and the underparts cinnamon. The short bill is blue; eyes and legs are red.
It uses thickets, forest edges, overgrown ground, and grassy or bushy pastures, walking on the ground to take invertebrates by day.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.