It is low, spreading or prostrate shrub that forms suckers and has softly-hairy new growth, linear to lance-shaped leaves with lobes on the edges, and groups of 7 to 10 white, later pink flowers.

[2][3] This species was first formally described in 2005 by Gordon Guymer who gave it the name Commersonia pedleyi in the journal Austrobaileya, from specimens collected by Leslie Pedley near Westmar in 1959.

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

[5] The specific epithet (pedleyi) honours the collector of the type specimens, who recognised that the species was new to science.

[3] Androcalva pedleyi grows in woodland or open forest, sometimes on roadsides, from near Gurulmundi to east of St George in south-eastern Queensland.