It has one or two dark green leaves at its base and up to twenty five greenish, insect-like flowers with red glands on its labellum.

[2][3][4] Arthrochilus dockrillii was first formally described in 1975 by Bill Lavarack from a specimen collected near Innisfail and the description was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland.

[5] In 2002 David Jones and Mark Clements transferred the species to the genus Phoringopsis as Phoringopsis dockrillii, a name accepted by the Australian Plant Census[6] but not by Plants of the World Online.

[1] The green truffle orchid grows in coastal and near-coastal forests and scrub between Hopevale and Bramston Beach with a disjunct population near Kuranda.

[2][4][7] As with other Arthrochilus orchids, A. dockrillii is pollinated by male thynnid wasps of the genus Arthrothynnus although the species involved is not known.