It is a rounded shrub with egg-shaped leaves, the narrower end towards the base, and heads of three to nine white and pinkish flowers.

The edges of the leaves are rolled under and irregularly lobed, both surfaces densely covered with fine, star-shaped hairs.

[3] Androcalva perlaria was first formally described in 2011 by Carolyn Wilkins in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected near Wellstead in 2006.

[3][5] This species grows in dense sedgeland in a seasonally wet habitat near Wellstead, and is only known from bout 270 individual plants in fragmented populations in the Esperance Plains bioregion in the south of Western Australia.

[2][3][6] Androcalva perlaria is listed as "endangered" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999[2] and as "Threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions,[6] meaning that it is in danger of extinction.