It is an erect or straggling shrub with sparsely hairy young stems, egg-shaped to fan-shaped leaves and greyish, softly-hairy heads of white or cream-coloured flowers.

Stenanthemum limitatum is an erect or straggling shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in), its young stems sparsely covered with grey or rust-coloured, star-shaped hairs.

The flowers arranged in groups of 5 to 10, up to 10 mm (0.39 in) wide, white to cream-coloured, and sparsely to moderately covered with softly-hairy, greyish, star-shaped hairs.

[2][3] Stenanthemum limitatum was first formally described in 1995 by Barbara Lynette Rye in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected by Charles Gardner on Mount Lesueur in 1946.

[2][3][5] Stenanthemum limitatum is listed as "Priority Two" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions,[5] meaning that it is poorly known and from only one or a few locations.