It is a low shrub that forms suckers, its new growth covered with star-shaped hairs, and has egg-shaped leaves with irregular teeth on the edges, and groups of two to six red flowers.

The flowers are red, 9–11 mm (0.35–0.43 in) in diameter with 5 petal-like sepals, the lobes divided for half their length.

[2][3] This species was first formally described in 2005 by Gordon Guymer who gave it the name Commersonia reticulata in the journal Austrobaileya, from specimens collected in Lumholtz National Park in 2005.

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

[3] Androcalva reticulata grows in woodland or open forest, from near Mount Garnet to Townsville in north-eastern Queensland.