It is usually an erect shrub and has elliptic leaves and heads of white flowers surrounded by 8 to 18 narrowly egg-shaped involucral bracts.

Pimelea subvillifera is usually an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 15–60 cm (5.9–23.6 in) and has hairy young stems.

[5] In 1988, Barbara Lynette Rye raised the subspecies to species status as Pimelea subvillifera in the journal Nuytsia.

[7] This pimelea grows on sandplains and rocky hillside from near Sandstone to near Norseman in the Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Great Victoria Desert, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of Western Australia, and on the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia.

[2][3][4] Pimelea subvillifera is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.