It is a spreading, sticky shrub with glabrous branches, egg-shaped, stalkless leaves and small, white or cream-coloured, tube-shaped flowers.

[2] The flowers are white or cream-coloured and arranged singly in upper leaf axils on a stalk 1–2 mm (0.04–0.08 in) long and sticky.

The five sepals are 6–7 mm (0.2–0.3 in) long and sticky with lance-shaped lobes and joined to form a short tube for about half their length.

[2] This species was first formally described in 1979 by Ahmad Abid Munir who gave it the name Pityrodia glutinosa and published the description in Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden.

[5][6] Dasymalla glutinosa is classified as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife[5] meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.