A 19th-century account describes this hummingbird in the mountains of New Granada and Ecuador and reports that it visits flowers. The plumage and behavior below come from that historical account.
In Gould's historical description, the male has dull bronzy-green upperparts and underparts, a long green throat mark bordered in blackish brown, and a small white spot behind the eye.
Jameson's old notes report feeding from blue lupine flowers on Pichincha's western slope in Ecuador. The same account describes the bird as solitary and making rapid flights between flowers.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.