It is a shrub or small tree with elliptic to lance-shaped or egg-shaped leaves and greenish-yellow flowers.

Flowering occurs in October and November and the fruit is a dark brown, glabrous capsule 3 mm (0.12 in) in diameter containing a single bone-coloured seed.

[2][3][4] Hazel pomaderris was first formally described in 1825 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle from an unpublished description by Franz Sieber.

De Candolle's description was published in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.

It is common in southern and eastern Victoria, less so in northern Tasmania and may also occur in South Australia.