It is an erect or weeping shrub with compact fibrous bark, elliptical to egg-shaped leaves, white flowers arranged singly on short axillary side shoots and woody fruit that fall off when mature.

Flowering mainly occurs from August to October and the fruit is a woody capsule about 4 mm (0.16 in) in diameter that falls off when mature.

[2][3] This species was formally described in 1843 by Sebastian Schauer who gave it the name Leptospermum divaricatum in Walper's book Repertorium Botanices Systematicae.

[4][5] In 2023, Peter Gordon Wilson transferred the species to the genus Gaudium as G. divaricatum in the journal Taxon.

[1] The specific epithet (divaricatum) is a Latin word meaning "widely spreading" or "forked".