It propagates primarily in wet tropical biome, as a lithophyte or pseudobulbous epiphyte.

Each pseudobulb would have three inflorescences that are arching, which bear up to 40 flowers 1.5 cm in diameter.

Henry Nicholas Ridley named this species in 1907 in the Material for a Flora of the Malay archipelago, under the genus Eria.

[3] The species name xanthocheila refers to the bright yellow labellum.

Pinalia xanthocheila is found in the lowlands of Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, and Java, and was recorded in the Philippines in a yet undisclosed location.