It is a low-lying to ascending herb with oblong to egg-shaped leaves with toothed or lyrate edges, and racemes of small yellow flowers.

Goodenia pusilliflora is a low-lying to ascending herb with stems up to 20 cm (7.9 in) long.

The leaves at the base of the plant are oblong to egg-shaped, sometimes narrow lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 15–80 mm (0.59–3.15 in) long and 5–15 mm (0.20–0.59 in) wide, with toothed to lyrate edges.

Flowering mainly occurs from July to October and the fruit is a slightly flattened spherical capsule, 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long.

[2][3][4][5][6] Goodenia pusilliflora was first formally described in 1888 by Ferdinand von Mueller in The Victorian Naturalist.