Phebalium woombye is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 2 m (6 ft 7 in) and has branchlets covered with scales and star-shaped hairs.

The calyx is top-shaped, about 3 mm (0.12 in) long with teeth about half that length, covered with silvery to rust-coloured scales inside and out.

The petals are white to pink, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, about 6 mm (0.24 in) long, 2.5 mm (0.098 in) wide and covered with rust-coloured scales on the back.

[2][3][4][5] This species was first formally described in 1898 by Frederick Manson Bailey who gave it the name Asterolasia woombye and published the description in the Queensland Agricultural Journal from specimens collected near Woombye.

[7][8] Phebalium woombye grows in coastal sand dunes, and on sandstones, sometimes also on granite in the Gibraltar Range.