This tanager occurs in Andean forests from Colombia to Bolivia. Males are green with orange patches around the ears and on the rump; females are duller. It forages with mixed flocks in the canopy and subcanopy.
Males are green with orange patches around the ears and on the rump; females are duller. In some subspecies the male's blue extends onto the breast and belly.
It forages with mixed flocks in humid montane forest canopy and subcanopy. Five nests found in Manu, Peru, during August–December 2009 and 2010 were moss clumps hanging from horizontal branches.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.