This woodcreeper occurs in the Guianas and in Brazil north of the Amazon. In dry-ground and periodically flooded lowland forest, it climbs trunks from the base while searching for insects.
The back is plain brown, with spots limited to the head and neck. It has a buff throat and an almost straight bill.
It uses lowland forest on dry ground and in periodically flooded areas. While feeding, it climbs a trunk in a spiral from the base and eats mostly insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.