[3] Trachymene ochracea is an erect herb growing up to 75 centimetres (30 in) high.

The leaves are consist of 3-5 deeply dissected lobes on stalks (petioles) up to 10 cm long.

[3] The plant is prolific after rain, growing in mulga and mallee communities on red earths and on sand.

[3] Trachymene ochracea was first described by Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson in 1962, from a specimen collected west of the Paroo River, in New South Wales, near Hungerford by J.L.

[1][2] The species epithet, ochracea, is the Latin adjective, ochraceus,-a,-um which means "ovhre-yellow" or "yellowish-brown".