The specific epithet bancroftii honours Queensland surgeon Joseph Bancroft for his pharmacological research on Australian plants.

[1] The species grows as an erect shrub to 1 m in height, covered with grey hairs.

The fruit is a shiny round red berry 5–10 mm in diameter.

[1] Bancroft's Symonanthus is very rare and known only from a few localities in the south-eastern Wheatbelt region of south-west Western Australia.

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