It is a shrub or small tree with narrow, lance-shaped leaves often crowded on short side branches, red flowers and unusual four-winged fruits resembling those of hop bushes.

Eremophila tetraptera is a rounded shrub or small tree which grows to a height of between 1 and 3 m (3 and 10 ft) and has buff-coloured, more or less corky, smooth branches.

Flowering occurs mainly in June and July and is followed by fruit which are egg-shaped viewed side-on, 10–15 mm (0.4–0.6 in) long and have 4 prominent wings.

[2][3] The species was first formally described in 1944 by Cyril Tenison White and the description was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland.

[2] This eremophila grows in small, scattered populations on slopes and along drainage channels in powdery clay soils, often near limestone hills.