This furnariid is covered in a regional guide to the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Its dark crown and rufous eyebrow stand out as it searches among foliage in the lower forest.
It has a blackish crown, cinnamon-brown upperparts, an orange-brown rump, a rufous-orange eyebrow, and orange-rufous underparts with a paler throat.
It occupies the lower stratum of dense primary and secondary forest and investigates palm fronds. It also uses open woods next to dense rainforest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.