It has a single broad, flattened leaf and up to two pale blue flowers and occurs near Esperance.

The sides of the labellum have short teeth, the tip curves downward and there are many rows of cylindrical calli along its mid-line.

[2][3][4][5] Cyanicula nikulinskyae was first formally described in 2000 by Stephen Hopper and Andrew Brown in Lindleyana from a specimen collected near Condingup.

[3][7] Phillippa's china orchid mostly occurs between the Fitzgerald River National Park and Israelite Bay in the Esperance Plains and Mallee biogeographic regions where it grows near areas that are wet in winter.

[2][3][4][5][8] Caladenia nikulinskyae is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.