It has a single egg-shaped leaf and up to ten small white flowers with red markings.

A relatively common species, it grows in shallow soil on granite outcrops.

The middle lobe is 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long and is fleshy with dark red bristles.

[2][3][4][5][6] Eriochilus pulchellus was first formally described in 2006 by Stephen Hopper and Andrew Brown from a specimen collected near Manjimup and the description was published in Nuytsia.

[3][4][5][9] Eriochilus pulchellus is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.