Paphiopedilum sukhakulii, a perennial rosulate herb, is small in size, narrowly shaped, pale, and dark green.

[1] It has longitudinal green lines that stretch across the leaf without touching the edges, leaving a narrow white border.

It grows at heights of 240–1000 meters on Mount Phy Luang Mountains in the province of Loei.

[4] This orchid grows in leafy sand-clay linens, usually along mountain streams under the shade of large forest trees.

[4][6] This species is under numerous threats including habitat fragmentation and degradation through the deterioration of the surrounding environments, deforestation, logging, random cutting, ruthless collection for regional and international trade, trampling, recreation and ecological disturbance.

[4] Other actions would be to raise public awareness, initiate long term community based conservation, estimate the population size, and protect the living individuals of the species through legislation and legal protection, which would then ban the species from being chosen or dug up.