It has egg-shaped leaves and pendulous, greenish yellow flowers usually arranged singly on short side branches.

Correa baeuerlenii is a dense, rounded shrub that typically grows to a height of 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) with rust coloured hairs on its stems.

Flowering occurs sporadically throughout the year with a peak in spring, and the fruit is up to 9 mm (0.35 in) long, surrounded by the remains of the corolla.

[2][4] Correa baeuerlenii was first formally described in 1884 by botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in Prodeedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales from specimens collected "on stony banks of rivulets of the Upper Clyde" by William Baeuerlen.

The main threats to the species are habitat loss due to land clearing and inappropriate fire regimes.