It has thick roots, a pendulous stem, between three and six crowded, dark green leaves and many crowded dark green flowers with pink to red centres and a white to yellowish labellum.

It grows on trees and rocks in rainforest in tropical North Queensland, Australia.Robiquetia wassellii is an epiphytic or lithophytic herb that forms sparse clumps.

A large number of resupinate, cup-shaped, dark green flowers with a pink to red centre, 12–14 millimetres (0.47–0.55 in) long, 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) are crowded on a pendulous flowering stem 100–150 mm (3.9–5.9 in) long.

[2][3] Robiquetia wassellii was first formally described in 1967 by Alick Dockrill who published the description in Australasian Sarcahthinae from a specimen collected in the McIlwraith Range by Joseph Leathom Hole Wassell.

[5] The green pouched orchid grows on trees and boulders in humid rainforest in the Iron and McIlwraith Ranges.