The flowers are variable: most forms have a pale cream base colour with varying amounts of purple streaking, particularly on the lip or labellum from midsummer to early autumn.

Like all members of the genus Roscoea, it dies back each year to a short vertical rhizome, to which are attached the tuberous roots.

When growth begins again, "pseudostems" are produced: structures which resemble stems but are actually formed from the tightly wrapped bases (sheaths) of its leaves.

There is a tube-shaped outer calyx, 5.0–5.4 cm long, pale red in colour, with a two-toothed apex.

Unlike R. cautleyoides, it has leaves with small "ears" at the junction of the blade and sheath and larger bracts, over rather than under 6 cm long.

[3] The name was not formally published until 2009, when Jill Cowley and Christopher Whitehouse provided a description and Latin diagnosis.

Moisture retentive but well-drained soils are recommended, with limited exposure to hot sun, although R. × beesiana has proved more tolerant than others in cultivation.