It lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes and forages in the midstory. The source describes two separated populations at the northern and southern ends of the range.
The back is olive, and the gray-olive crown has a partly concealed rufous patch. The black wing coverts have two broad creamy or rufous bars; the bill is bicolored and the breast tawny.
It forages in the midstory of humid montane forest and often joins mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.