This hummingbird occurs in Brazil. Gould described its head and back as dark grass-green and its wings as purplish brown; modern species accounts place it at humid forest edges and in the understory, where it takes nectar.
John Gould described the head and upperparts as dark grass-green and the wings as purplish brown. The throat and breast are gray with a green gloss, and the bill is black.
It uses humid-forest edges and understory, as well as plantations, and feeds on nectar. Gould also reported a preference for banana flowers in Brazil.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.