It is a prostrate to low-lying shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, the edges smoothly serrated, and clusters of three to nine or more white to cream-coloured flowers.

Flowering mainly occurs from August to November and the fruit is a spherical capsule 6–8 mm (0.24–0.31 in) in diameter and covered with bristles and star-shaped hairs.

[2] This species was first formally described in 1920 by Spencer Le Marchant Moore who gave it the name as Commersonia stowardii in the Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany, from specimens collected by Frederick Stoward near Nungarin.

[3][4] In 2011, Carolyn Wilkins and Barbara Whitlock transferred the species to Androcalva as A. stowardii in Australian Systematic Botany.

[2][6] This androcalva grows in sandy soil and gravel in the inland parts of the south-west of Western Australia in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie and Yalgoo bioregions.