This hummingbird inhabits forests from Mexico into northern Central America. Adults have a blue-violet throat and feed among flowers in the lower and middle parts of the forest.
Adults have a blue-violet throat and a white stripe behind the eye. The crown is dark green; the back changes from dark green to bronze toward the lower back, while the underside is dark grey with a diffuse green tint.
It perches and feeds in the lower and middle parts of its forest habitat, often around flower-rich patches. The account lists humid and semi-humid forests and their edges.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.