It is an erect shrub with pinnate leaves with five to fifteen leaflets, and yellow, red and orange, pea-like flowers.

Gompholobium preissii is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 10–40 cm (3.9–15.7 in).

[2] Gompholobium preissii was first formally described in 1844 by Carl Meissner in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae.

[5] This species of gompholobium on lateritic soils and is widespread in the south-western of Western Australia.

[2] Gompholobium preissii is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.