Its throat and upper breast gorget is glittering purple with pinkish scales and has a white pectoral band below it.

The rest of the underparts are yellowish to pale buff with round green spots.

[7] The Merida sunangel is found only in the Andes of Mérida state in northwestern Venezuela.

It was a downy cup perched on a small root under an overhang in a road cut.

The Merida sunangel's call is "a repeated, high-pitched, cricket-like, short trill" that is given both while perched and in flight.

[7] The IUCN has assessed the Merida sunangel as being of Least Concern, though its population size and trend are not known.

The principal threats are "expansion of agricultural frontier and habitat fragmentation.