This small ovenbird inhabits restricted montane forest in eastern Panama. It has brown plumage with pale eyebrow and cheek stripes and moves along trunks and branches.
It has a plain brown back, rufous wings and tail, cream eyebrow, eye-ring and cheek stripes, and a white throat. Pale yellow spots mark its brown breast.
The AOS checklist places it in montane evergreen and elfin forest at 1,350–1,600 m. The species page describes it climbing trunks and branches like a woodcreeper.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.