It is an attractive shrub or small tree for the home garden bearing sprays of cream-white flowers.

Hakea dactyloides is a non-lignotuberous upright single-stemmed bushy shrub or small tree 2.4–4.5 m (8–10 ft) tall.

Small branches are smooth and generally pale, covered with short matted fine hairs at flowering.

Small white flowers often with a pink tinge appear along branches in axillary clusters from October to November.

In 1800, it was described by Antonio Jose Cavanilles as Hakea dactyloides and published in Anales de Historia Natural.