Grevillea candelabroides is a shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are pinnately divided, long, with seven to fourteen linear lobes long and wide with the edges rolled under. The lower surface of the leaves have two hairy grooves. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branchlets in erect groups long, and are cream-coloured to white, the
pistil long and
glabrous. Flowering mostly occurs from August to January and the fruit is a
glabrous, flattened oval
follicle long. ==Taxonomy==