It is an erect to low-lying shrub with divided leaves with mostly three to eleven sharply-pointed linear lobes, and clusters of red to pink flowers that are silky-hairy on the outside.

[3][4][5][6][7] Grevillea huegelii was first formally described in 1845 by Carl Meissner in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected near the Avon River, near York in 1839.

[10] Comb spider-flower grows in a variety of habitats, including mallee woodland and heath and has a disjunct distribution in southern continental Australia.

[1][5] The species has experienced rapid declines and significant habitat loss due to land clearing for agricultural purposes.

However, this threat is not significant enough to warrant a threatened category, as the species has a vast and widespread distribution where it is locally common and substantial habitat remains.