It is an erect shrub with linear to narrowly egg-shaped leaves and yellow and reddish flowers arranged in racemes on the ends of branches.

Chorizema parviflorum is an erect or ascending shrub that typically grows to a height of 20–50 cm (7.9–19.7 in), its branches more or less glabrous.

The flowers are arranged in racemes on the ends of branches with narrowly lance-shaped bracts and bracteoles at the base.

Flowering occurs in spring and the fruit is a broadly oval pod 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) long.

[2][3] This chorizema was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham in Commentationes de Leguminosarum Generibus from specimens collected by Ferdinand Bauer .