It occurs in Venezuela’s tepui highlands and nearby uplands at the Brazil–Guyana border. Its plumage is uniformly olive, with slightly paler, greyer underparts.
Its plumage is uniformly olive-green and slightly lighter and greyer below.
It mainly eats small fruits while foraging in the lower levels of humid forest and along forest edges; it sometimes joins other manakins.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.