It is an erect shrub covered with star-shaped hairs, and with linear to lance-shaped leaves, greenish-white flowers and reddish fruit.

The flowers are sessile and arranged in upper leaf axils with leafy bracts 5–15 mm (0.20–0.59 in) long.

[2] This germander was first formally described in 1883 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Spartothamnus junceus var.

[3][7] In 2016, Stefan Kattari and Christian Bräuchler changed the name to Teucrium puberulum in the journal Taxon.

[8][9] Teucrium puberulum grows in mallee and grassy woodland in inland areas between Charters Towers in Queensland and Condobolin in New South Wales.