It is a shrub with broad, flat leaves, and orange-coloured flowers in late winter or spring.

[2] The flowers are orange-coloured, on the ends of the previous year's wood and occur singly or rarely, two together.

The capsules are 6.9–8 millimetres (0.27–0.31 in) long, more or less cup-shaped, rough and lumpy with the remains of the sepals giving a star-like appearance to the end.

[2] The names of three subspecies of Eremaea asterocarpa are accepted by the Australian Plant Census: Eremaea asterocarpa is found in near-coastal areas of the south-west in the Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions.

[12] Eremaea asterocarpa is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.