It is a spreading shrub, usually with bipinnatifid leaves and loose clusters of dull pink to crimson flowers.

Flowering mainly occurs from June to December and the fruit is a woolly-hairy follicle 17–21 mm (0.67–0.83 in) long.

[3][4] Grevillea bipinnatifida was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown in Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae from specimens collected by Charles Fraser near the Swan River in 1827.

[7] In 2004, Raymond Cranfield described two subspecies in the journal Nuytsia, and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census: Fuchsia grevillea grows in heath, open forest and woodland between Mogumber and Collie, mainly on the Darling Range in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.

The species seems to be unaffected by dieback disease caused by the plant pathogen Phytophtora, as it occurs in many areas which are badly impacted by it.