It is a shrub or small tree with pinnatisect leaves with linear lobes, and white to creamy-green flowers.

The flowers are in dense, cylindrical groups 50–100 mm (2.0–3.9 in) long on the ends of branches and are fragrant and white to creamy-green.

Flowering mainly occurs from November to January and the fruit is velvety follicle 20–25 mm (0.79–0.98 in) long.

[3][4][5] Grevillea albiflora was first formally described in 1944 by Cyril Tenison White in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland from specimens collected near Cunnamulla in 1939 by Stanley Thatcher Blake.

[8] White spider flower grows in deep red sand in two disjunct populations, one from near Uluru to Rainbow Valley in the southern Northern Territory and northern South Australia, and the other from near Cunnamulla and St George in Queensland to Bourke in New South Wales.