This hummingbird lives in humid montane forest in the northern Andes. Males are dark green with an iridescent pink gorget; females have a green back and whitish-gray throat and belly.
The male is mostly dark green with an iridescent pink gorget. The female is green above, whitish-gray on the throat and center of the underparts, with a small remnant pink gorget.
In Peru it is recorded in humid montane forest at 400–1,050 m, and it also occurs in Colombia and Ecuador.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.