This hummingbird occurs in southeastern Brazil. Males have a ruby-red throat and coppery-rufous tail; females have pale cinnamon underparts.
The male is green with a ruby-red throat and coppery-rufous lower back and tail. The female is green with light cinnamon underparts.
In a 2012 study at an Atlantic Forest remnant in southeastern Brazil, it visited artificial feeders with 35% sugar solution more often and won many encounters with other hummingbirds.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.