It has branchlets with silvery scales, oblong to elliptical leaves, deep pink to mauve flowers arranged in umbels of up to six, with the stamens distinctively offset to one side of the flower.

The petals are narrow egg-shaped to spatula-shaped, 8–12 mm (0.31–0.47 in) long and 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) wide with the stamens, which have bright yellow anthers, distinctively offset to one side.

[2][3][4] This species was first formally described and named as Eriostemon nottii by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae in 1867.

[5][6] In 1899 Joseph Maiden and Ernst Betche changed the name to Phebalium nottii, publishing the change in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.

[7][8][9] Phebalium nottii grows on sandstone in forest and occurs in inland Queensland and in the Grafton and Coonamble-Peak Hill districts in New South Wales.