It is an erect shrub with linear to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white or cream-coloured flowers with ten stamens.

There are ten stamens and flowering has been observed between November and July.

[2] Thryptomene remota was first formally described in 1997 by Anthony Bean in the journal Austrobaileya from specimens by Clyde Dunlop collected near Jim Jim Falls in 1981.

[2][3] The specific epithet (remota) means "remote" referring to the species' distance from its relatives in the south-west of Western Australia.

[2] This thryptomene grows in shrubland and woodland, mainly in Kakadu National Park and parts of nearby Arnhem Land.