This tanager is recorded in the Colombian Andes. A field guide for the Sibundoy region describes its grass-green plumage, rusty facial markings, and small-group behavior in forest.
It is bright grass green with rusty markings around the face.
The regional guide records pairs or groups of about three to six in forest and at forest edges, sometimes moving in mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.