It has papery, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, and up to five green, nodding flowers arranged in leaf axils.

Correa eburnea is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–4 mm (0.039–0.157 in) and has branchlets covered with rust-coloured hairs.

The leaves are papery, egg-shaped to elliptical, mostly 30–50 mm (1.2–2.0 in) long on a short petiole and covered with minute white hairs on the lower surface.

[2][3][4] Correa eburnea was first formally described by Paul G. Wilson in 1998 in the botanic journal Nuytsia from plant material collected in 1991 from Deep Creek Conservation Park on the Fleurieu Peninsula by Robert John Bates.

[2][6] This correa is listed as endangered under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and the South Australian Government National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1972.