It is a shrub with spreading or low-lying branches, oblong to broadly elliptic leaves and clusters of 4 to 20 yellow flowers.

Androcalva loxophylla is a shrub with spreading or low-lying branches and that typically grows to 30–50 cm (12–20 in) high and 60–150 mm (2.4–5.9 in) wide.

Flowering occurs in most months with a peak from August to October and the fruit is a hairy, spherical capsule about 3 mm (0.12 in) in diameter.

[2][3] This species was first formally described in 1859 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Rulingia loxophylla in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.

[4] In 2011, Carolyn Wilkins and Barbara Whitlock transferred the species to the genus Androcalva in Australian Systematic Botany.