It is a slender shrub with rusty-hairy young stems, egg-shaped to oblong or more or less elliptic leaves, and loose panicles of pale yellow flowers.

Pomaderris velutina is a slender shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–2 m (3 ft 3 in – 6 ft 7 in), its branchlets covered with soft, star-shaped hairs and rust-coloured simple hairs.

The upper surface of the leaves is densely covered with velvety hairs, the lower surface covered with scattered long hairs.

[2][3] Pomaderris velutina was first formally described in 1942 by James Hamlyn Willis in The Victorian Naturalist based on plant material collected from the headwaters of the Ovens River between Bright and Porepunkah in 1941.

[6] Velvety pomaderris grows in forest and woodland mainly in steep, rocky sites, but also along creeks and gorges in eastern Victoria and south of Lake Burragorang in New South Wales.