It is a prostrate to erect shrub with short branchlets, divided leaves with linear to narrowly lance-shaped lobes with the narrower end towards the base, and white to cream-coloured flowers.

Grevillea curviloba is a prostrate to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.1–2.6 m (3.9 in – 8 ft 6.4 in) and has short branchlets.

angustifolia in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony.

incurva is listed as "Threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife, and an interim recovery plan has been prepared.

[14] It has also been listed as Critically Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, due to a continuing population decline estimated to be greater than 80% within the last 150 years from threats including land clearing, competition with invasive weed species and canker disease.