Grevillea phylicoides R.Br.

Shrub 1-2 m tall. Leaves elliptic to narrowly so or oblong to slightly and narrowly oblanceolate, 1-2.5 (-3) cm long, 1.5-4 (-6) mm wide; margins recurved; upper surface granulose; lower surface exposed, open-villous with all hairs strongly ascending to wavy-erect. Unit conflorescence subumbelloid, basipetal. Flowers abaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth grey (hairs) with brown markings, white hairs on inner surface conspicuously displayed; style with white hairs over pinkish ground tissue; style tip sometimes green. Perianth tomentose to villous outside, sublanate inside. Pistil 10-13 mm long, subvillous or tomentose; style-end with an antrorsely-directed to erect (very rarely slightly retrorse) dorsal horn-like hairy appendage (0.3-) 1.0-2 mm long; pollen-presenter lateral, narrowly elliptic in face view, slightly convex. Follicle obliquely ovoid, c. 15 mm long, sparsely villous.

Grows in dry sclerophyll woodland or heath, usually in skeletal sandy soils over sandstone.