It is a small, perennial shrub with greyish-green leaves, white papery flowers,[3] yellow centre and is endemic to Australia.

The flowers heads are borne singly at the end of slender stems arising from the base, inner involucral bracts white, papery, elliptic shaped, about 6 mm (0.24 in) long and the 30-40 florets yellow.

Flowering occurs from September to February and the fruit is a small, dry achene, about 2 mm (0.079 in) long and covered with silky hairs.

[4][5] This species was first described in 1826 as Helichrysum anthemoides by Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel from an unpublished description by Franz Sieber.

[9] Chamomile sunray is a widespread species growing on sandy, rocky and alpine herb fields in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania.