It is a small, bushy shrub with sharply-pointed linear leaves and spikes or racemes of tube-shaped, white flowers.

Lissanthe pluriloculata is small but robust, bushy shrub with branchlets covered with short, soft hairs.

The flowers are mostly borne in short spikes or racemes on the ends of the branches with very small bracts and bracteoles at the base.

[2] This species was first formally described in 1863 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Leucopogon pluriloculata in his Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected near the Burnett River.

[3][4] In 2005, Jocelyn Marie Powell, Crayn and Elizabeth Brown transferred the species to Lissanthe as L. pluriloculata in Australian Systematic Botany.