This hummingbird lives in the Santa Marta mountains. The male has a peach-toned crown and gray throat, and the bird takes nectar from small flowers low in the vegetation.
In the historical male description, the forehead is pale buff-white and the crown is peach-toned. The gray throat grades into a rufous belly.
It feeds alone at small tubular flowers low in the vegetation. During breeding, males gather at leks on low horizontal perches inside closed-canopy forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.