It forms large clumps with between four and eight dark green, linear leaves and up to fifteen white flowers with crimson spots near the centre.

Sarcochilus fitzgeraldii is a lithophytic herb with stems 200–500 mm (7.9–20 in) long and which forms large clumps on rocks.

[3][4][1][5] Sarcochilus fitzgeraldii was first formally described in 1870 by Ferdinand von Mueller and the description was published in Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae from a specimen collected near the Bellinger River by Robert Fitzgerald.

It is found between Maleny in south-east Queensland and the Macleay River in New South Wales.

[3][4] This orchid is class as "vulnerable" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and the New South Wales Government Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.