The petals are white or slightly pink, sometimes spotted inside the tube and on the base of the lobes.

The fruits that follow are dry and shaped like a top, flattened with a point on the end and 3–4.5 by 1.5–2.5 millimetres (0.1 in–0.2 in × 0.06 in–0.1 in).

[3][4][5] Myoporum turbinatum was first formally described by taxonomist Bob Chinnock in Nuytsia in 1986[2][3] from a specimen collected in the north east of Esperance.

The specific epithet (turbinatum) is a Latin word meaning "shaped like a top", referring to the fruit.

[3][4][7][8] Myoporum turbinatum has been classified as "Priority 4" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife[7] meaning that it is rare or near threatened.