It is a shrub or small tree with elliptical to egg-shaped leaves and cylindrical, greenish-yellow or reddish-mauve flowers arranged singly or in groups of up to seven in leaf axils or on the ends of branchlets.

The flowers are arranged singly or in groups of up to seven in leaf axils and on the ends of branchlets on a stalk 7–25 mm (0.28–0.98 in) long.

The calyx is cup-shaped, 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) long, covered with woolly, rust-coloured hairs and with a wavy rim.

It was given the name Correa latrobeana and the description was published in Jottings in Australia: or, Notes on the flora and fauna of Victoria, with a catalogue of the more common plants, their habitats, and dates of flowering.

[7][8] This correa variety grows in forest or dense scrub, often along streams south from the Goulburn district in New South Wales to eastern Victoria where it is found n places including Buchan, Mount Buffalo, Mount Baw Baw, Warburton and Healesville then extending to the south-west of Melbourne as far as the Otway Ranges.