This wren has a rich rufous eyebrow and uses humid montane pine-oak and evergreen forest, moving among epiphytes, branches, and fallen logs.
Its face, breast, and prominent eyebrow are rich reddish tawny; the belly and undertail are buff, with dark barring on the flanks and undertail. The tail is short.
It inhabits humid montane evergreen and pine-oak forest, using epiphytes on trunks, middle branches, and fallen logs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.