This wren has plain rufous-brown upperparts and a gray, black-barred tail. It forages low and midway in forests in Ecuador and Peru.
The upperparts are plain rufous-brown, and the gray tail has black bars. The black markings on the throat, breast, and sides are bars in one subspecies treated by the account and speckles in another.
It forages in the understory and midstory of semideciduous and humid forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.