It is an erect shrub with egg-shaped to wedge-shaped leaves with a pointed tip, and dense clusters of bright yellow and red flowers.

The flowers are sessile, 7–15 mm (0.28–0.59 in) long and arranged in dense clusters of five to eleven on the ends of branches, with overlapping bracts at the base.

Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is an egg-shaped pod 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) long.

[2][3][4][5][6] Pultenaea daphnoides was first formally described in 1798 by German botanist Johann Christoph Wendland in 1798 in his book, Botanische Beobachtungen.

[9] This pultenaea grows in heath and forest from south-east Queensland, along the coast and tablelands of New South Wales, to Victoria where it is widespread and common except in the north-east of that state and Tasmania where it is also widespread and common.