[3] Each inflorescence is racemose with globular heads containing 13 to 21 white, cream or pale lemon yellow flowers.

[4] The species was first formally described by the botanist Heinrich Wendland in 1845 as part of the work Verzeichniss von Treib-Glashaus-Bosquet-Pflanzen, Standen-Gewachsen und Georginen ... zu Herrenhausen bei Hannover.

It was briefly reclassified as Racosperma willdenowianum by Leslie Pedley in 2003 but was reverted to the original name in 2006.

[5] The type specimen was collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony in 1839.

[4] It has a scattered distribution from the Mid West, Wheatbelt, Peel and Great Southern regions.