It grows in forest and woodland in Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales.

Genoplesium clivicola is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and a single thin leaf fused to the flowering stem.

The labellum is egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 2.5–3 mm (0.098–0.12 in) long, about 1 mm (0.04 in) wide and there is a narrow egg-shaped callus in the centre of the labellum and extending nearly to its tip.

[2] Corunastylis clivicola was first formally described in 2007 by David Jones from a specimen collected in the Black Mountain Reserve and the description was published in The Orchadian.

In New South Wales it is found on the Central and Southern Tablelands, including the Australian Capital Territory.