It is an erect shrub with spikes of small white flowers in early spring, followed by orange-red fruit.

Leucopogon affinis is an erect, often bushy shrub which grows to a height of 0.7–3 m (2–10 ft), sometimes with its youngest branches having a covering of tiny hairs.

Flowering occurs from August to October and is followed by glabrous, edible, oval-shaped, reddish-orange fruit about 3 mm (0.1 in) long.

[2][3][4][5]Leucopogon affinis was first formally described by Robert Brown in 1810 and the description was published in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae.

[1] This leucopogon mainly grows in open forests and woodland, sometimes in moist gullies or in swampy areas, on a range of soils.