A scarce, difficult-to-see antshrike of cloud forest on the eastern Andes. It is brown and buff, with a stout hooked bill.
Its plumage is brown to buff, with a patterned face and a stout bill whose tip curves into a hook.
It inhabits cloud forest on the eastern Andean slope, using the middle levels of the forest and sometimes joining mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.