It is a shrub with lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white flowers with eight to eleven stamens.
Baeckea trapeza is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) and has grey, scaly bark.
[2][3] Baeckea trapeza was first formally described in 1997 by Anthony Bean in the journal Telopea from specimens he collected on the Blackdown Tableland in 1996.
[2][4] The specific epithet (trapeza) means "a table", referring to the distribution of the species on the Blackdown Tableland.
[2] This baeckea grows in open forest at altitudes between 700 and 800 m (2,300 and 2,600 ft) and is confined to the Blackdown Tableland in Queensland.