This wren lives near the forest floor in Amazonian lowlands. Adults have brown upperparts, a white throat and breast, and brown scale-like markings across the breast and flanks.
Adults have brown upperparts, a white throat and breast, and brown bars across the lower breast and upper belly.
It forages alone close to the forest floor, searching among leaf litter and low branches for small prey.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.