It is a dense, bushy shrub with leaves composed of three leaflets which are warty on the upper surface.

Zieria adenodonta is a dense, bushy shrub which grows to a height of 3 m (10 ft) and has warty branchlets.

[4][5] In 2002, James Armstrong raised it to species status and published the change in Australian Systematic Botany.

[8]: 807 Zieria adenodonta occurs in the Lamington National Park in Queensland and on Mount Warning in New South Wales, growing in dense shrubby vegetation on steep slopes.

[1][2][3] Wollumbin zieria is listed as "Endangered" under the New South Wales NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act.