It is a small shrub with needle-like leaves and which bears orange-coloured flowers on short side branches and fruits with a surface that is rough to the touch.

Eremaea acutifolia is an erect to spreading shrub which sometimes grows to a height of 0.7 metres (2 ft) and which, unlike some others in the genus, lacks a lignotuber.

[3] The flowers are usually orange, rarely dark pink and are on the ends of short side branches off the previous year's wood.

The capsules are 3.5–6 millimetres (0.1–0.2 in) long, shaped like an inverted cone and are rough or lumpy on the outer surface.

[7] Eremaea acutifolia is classified as "Priority Three" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife[2] meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.