It has thin, firm bark, narrow egg-shaped to elliptical leaves, white or pink flowers arranged usually singly on side shoots and fruit that falls from the plant when the seeds are released.

The flowers are usually borne singly on side shoots or in leaf axils and are white or pink, about 10 mm (0.39 in) wide.

[2] This species was first formally described in 1848 by John Lindley who gave it the name Leptospermum sericatum in Thomas Mitchell's Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia.

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

[1][4] This tea-tree usually grows in crevices near sandstone cliffs and occurs in the Leichhardt district in Queensland.