It is an upright shrub with grey foliage and cream, white or pale yellow flowers.

Older leaves are oval to elliptic or more or less egg-shaped, 5–45 mm (0.20–1.77 in) long, 1.5–7 mm (0.059–0.276 in) wide, lamina covered densely in short matted hairs, younger leaves up to 13 cm (5.1 in) long and 4 cm (1.6 in) wide.

Flowering occurs from spring to early summer and the fruit a capsule 2.5 mm (0.098 in) long.

[4] In 1853 John Miers transferred the species to Cyphanthera as C. albicans in The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.

albicans grows in forest or shrubland in New South Wales from near Rylstone to the Shoalhaven River and also occurs in Queensland and the far north-east of Victoria.