It is a shrub with soft, pointed, non-prickly leaves, orange flowers in spring and cup shaped to almost spherical woody fruits.

Flowers appear singly on the ends of short side branches formed in the previous year.

Eremaea blackwelliana is a shrub with spreading branches, growing to about 3 metres (10 ft) high and wide.

[2][4] The specific epithet (blackwelliana) honours Marion Blackwell, a landscape designer who encouraged the cultivation of Australian native plants.

[5] Eremaea blackwelliana is listed as "Priority 4" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife[3] meaning that it is rare or near threatened.