It is usually a small, compact shrub with sweetly-perfumed, lemon-yellow flowers which change colour through red to brown as they age.

The sepals are lemon-yellow, 2.8–3.0 mm (0.11–0.12 in) long, with 6 to 8 hairy lobes and change colour through red, to brown and almost black as they age.

[2] Verticordia endlicheriana was first formally described by Johannes Conrad Schauer in 1844 and the description was published in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae.

[3] The varietal name "manicula" is derived from a Latin word meaning little hand[4] referring to the hand-like shape of the petals.

It occurs from north of Mingenew to Moore River in the south and to Morawa, Goomalling and Dowerin in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain in the biogeographic regions.