Cyanicula ixioides is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber.

[2][3][4] White china orchid was first formally described in 1840 by John Lindley who gave it the name Caladenia ixioides in A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony.

[6] The specific epithet (ixioides) means "Ixia-like", referring to the flower shape.

[3] Cyanicula ixioides is mostly found between York and Bindoon in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions, growing in forest and woodland under wandoo and jarrah.

[2][3][4][7] Cyanicula ixioides is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.