It is a shrub with weeping branches, narrow egg-shaped leaves, and flowers in pairs with five sepals, five relatively small white petals and fourteen to seventeen stamens.

Triplarina imbricata is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2.8 m (9 ft 2 in) and has a grey, scaly or fibrous bark.

[2][3][4] This species was first formally described by James Edward Smith in 1802 and given the name Leptospermum imbricatum in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London from specimens collected in 1791 by David Binton near Port Jackson.

[9][10] In 1843, Schauer, apparently unaware of Rafinesque's publication, described Camphoromyrtus brownii, also based on B. camphorata in Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde but the name was illegitimate.

The main threats to the species include habitat loss, weed invasion and trampling by domestic livestock.