It is a small shrub with leaves composed of three leaflets and which has relatively large yellow flowers in spring and early summer.

[2][3] The flowers are yellow and are arranged singly or in groups of up to three in leaf axils or on the ends of the branches on a pedicel about 10 mm (0.4 in) long.

Flowering mostly occurs from September to November and is followed by the fruit which is an oval to roughly spherical legume up to 18 mm (0.7 in) long and 10 millimetres (0.4 in) wide containing twelve to fifteen brownish, kidney-shaped seeds.

[2][3] Gompholobium latifolium was first formally described in 1805 by James Edward Smith and the description was published in Annals of Botany.

[7] Golden glory pea grows in dry sclerophyll forest in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria in sandy soil.