Hume’s Treecreeper has a brown back with pale streaks and spots and an orange-brown rump. In Yunnan, the shanensis form occurs in forest and searches bark for small prey.
The Yunnan subspecies has brown upperparts streaked and mottled with buff and white, plus an orange-brown rump. A buff-brown wash on the throat and upper breast can be absent in juveniles and non-breeding adults.
In Yunnan it breeds in broadleaf and mixed subtropical forest, up to 3,100 m. A field guide documents it searching beneath bark for arthropods.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.