It has a single short, smooth, flattened, egg-shaped leaf and up to twenty dull green, red and white flowers which are often closely packed.

The leaf is held above ground on a stalk up to 100 mm (4 in) long and is often not fully developed at flowering time.

Flowering occurs from March to June and is enhanced by fire the previous summer.

[1][3][4][5] The common bunny orchid was first formally described in 1840 by John Lindley who gave it the name Eriochilus multiflorus and published the description in A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony.

multiflorus is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.