It has glandular-warty branchlets, trifoliate leaves with narrow elliptic to lance-shaped leaflets, and panicles of white flowers in leaf axils and on the ends of branchlets.

Acradenia frankliniae is a shrub or tree that grows to a height of about 7 m (23 ft) and has hairy, glandular-warty branchlets.

The flowers are arranged in panicles, in leaf axils and on the ends of branchlets, and are 20–50 mm (0.79–1.97 in) long.

[2][3][4] Acradenia frankliniae was first formally described in 1853 by Richard Kippist in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London.

[6] Whitey wood grows in rainforest in western Tasmania from the Pieman River south to the Gordon River, from sea level to an altitude of 200 m (660 ft).