It is a low, prostrate or dense shrub with wrinkled, egg-shaped leaves with rounded teeth on the edges, and clusters of small, white flowers.

The flowers are 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) wide with five white, petal-like sepals that are hairy on the back.

The petals have a linear ligule half as long as the sepals, and there is a single hairy staminode between each pair of stamens.

Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is a hairy capsule 4 mm (0.16 in) in diameter.

[3] This species was first formally described in 1837 by Stephan Endlicher who gave it the name Rulingia parviflora in Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel from specimens collected from King George Sound by Charles von Hügel.