It is a ground orchid with a single leaf and one or two white to cream-coloured flowers with drooping, brown, thread-like tips.

The labellum is white or cream-coloured with its tip rolled under and sides turned upwards.

[2][4] Caladenia venusta was first formally described in 1991 by Geoffrey Carr and the description was published in Indigenous Flora and Fauna Association Miscellaneous Paper 1.

[1] The specific epithet (venusta) is a Latin word meaning "lovely", "beautiful", "elegant" or "graceful".

[5] The graceful spider orchid is most common in Victoria but even in that state it is rare, usually occurring in coastal woodland but is also found in the Grampians.