Diagnostic features as in key. Flowers spring and summer.
Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Widespread in moist forests from foothills to subalps.
Intergrades with subsp. maideniana in upper montane areas.
Briggs, B.G.; Makinson, R.O. (1999). Derwentia. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 507–508. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
