The male has blue-violet and metallic green plumage, while the female has a green back and gray underside. In northeastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest, it feeds on flower nectar and small arthropods.
About 11.5 cm long, the male has blue-violet upperparts, a green head, and metallic green underparts. The female has green upperparts, gray underparts, and white tail tips.
It mainly takes nectar but also eats small arthropods, foraging in the forest understory and near vegetation edges. The source reports breeding from about November to February.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.