This small bird lives in moist forests of south-eastern Brazil, and males and females have very different plumage.
The male is turquoise-blue with black on the throat, eye stripe and upper mantle. The female is brownish olive above, blue-green on the forecrown, cheeks and rump, and dull buff below.
It lives in moist lowland and montane forests. Its main foods are insects and small fruits, and it also takes nectar, berries and seeds.
At Intervales State Park in Brazil, males and females wove Usnea lichens into cup nests within clumps of lichen hanging below branches.
At one nest in the same park, two chicks hatched on 17 February 2009. The male brought food during the first five days, after which both parents fed the chicks.
Both males and females have entirely black bills and dark brown irises.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.