It has slightly toothed, wrinkled green leaves, stems with rusty coloured star-shaped hairs and yellow flowers.

Pomaderris prunifolia is a shrub to 4 m (13 ft) high with rusty coloured star-shaped hairs on the stems.

The leaves are egg-shaped to oblong to more or less elliptic, 2–4 cm (0.79–1.57 in) long, 8–15 mm (0.31–0.59 in) wide, upper surface wrinkled, rough, with simple hairs or rarely smooth, margins more or less toothed, underside with more or less rusty coloured star-shaped hairs and ending with a broadly acute apex.

[2][3] Pomaderris prunifolia was first formally described in 1837 by Eduard Fenzl and the description was published in Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel.

[4][5] Plum-leaf pomaderris is an uncommon species, it grows south of the Hunter Valley, west of the Nandewar Range and Chandler River gorge in rocky situations, mostly near creeks.