Leionema obtusifolium, is a small shrub with yellow-white flowers in terminal clusters at the end of branches.

Leionema obtusifolium is a small shrub to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high with a smooth, shiny appearance.

The sessile leaves are smooth, papery, narrowly elliptic or with straight sides and rounded apex to spoon-shaped, 25–50 mm (0.98–1.97 in) long, 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) wide, minutely scalloped near the apex that is rounded to blunt.

[5][6] This species has a restricted distribution, growing on sandstone hills in the Helidon and Ravensbourne areas of south-eastern Queensland.

[2] Leionema obtusifolium is classified as "vulnerable" by the Government of Queensland Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.