It is a small, spreading shrub with pendulous yellow and pink flowers, grey-green leaves and is endemic to New South Wales.

Homoranthus darwinioides is a small, spreading shrub 1–1.5 m (3–5 ft) high, 60 cm (24 in) wide, smooth stems with a stiff upright habit.

The pendulous, conspicuous yellow and pink flowers are borne in pairs in upper leaf axils on a pedicel 1 mm (0.039 in) long.

The small bracts are leaf-like, persistent during and after the flowering period, calyx tube about 1 cm (0.39 in) long with 5–7 fringed awns of equal length.

[6][7] It was transferred to the genus Homoranthus in 1922 by botanist Edwin Cheel and published in Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales.