It is a shrub with woolly-hairy stems, egg-shaped to narrowly elliptic leaves, and panicles of creamy-yellow flowers.

The sepals, floral cup and fruit are covered with long, silvery, and woolly, star-shaped hairs.

[2][3] Pomaderris queenslandica was first formally described in 1951 by Cyril Tenison White in The Queensland Naturalist from specimens he collected at Back Creek, near Canungra in 1931.

[4][5] Scant pomaderris grows in moist forest or the understorey of sheltered woodland in south-eastern Queensland and in scattered locations on the north coast and Northern Tablelands of north-eastern New South Wales.

[2][3] This pomaderris is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992 but as "endangered" in New South Wales under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.