 "Phebalium daviesii" is a shrub that grows to a height of and is more or less covered with silvery or rust-coloured scales.The leaves are narrow wedge-shaped, up to long and wide with a notched tip, a short petiole and glabrous on the upper surface.The flowers are white to cream-coloured and arranged in sessile umbels on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel about long.