It is an erect, dense shrub with linear to oblong leaves and red, or pinkish-red, tube-shaped flowers.

Brachyloma preissii is an erect, dense shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2–1 m (7.9 in – 3 ft 3.4 in), the branchlets slightly hairy.

The leaves are linear to oblong, usually 8–17 mm (0.31–0.67 in) long, and paler on the lower surface.

[3][4] Brachyloma preissii was first formally described by Otto Wilhelm Sonder in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae in 1845, from specimens collected near the Swan River by James Drummond.

[7] This shrub grows in coastal areas and on sandplains in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain, and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.