It has a single fleshy, dark green leaf and up to six pale pink to reddish flowers with a short wavy lobe on top of the column.

The lobe on the top of the anther has a dense fringe and a yellow tip with a dark collar.

The side lobes have dense, yellow, mop-like tufts on their ends.

[2][3][4] Thelymitra luteocilium was first formally described in 1882 by Robert Fitzgerald and the description was published in The Gardeners' Chronicle.

[7]: 390 The fringed sun orchid mostly grows near low shrubs in forest and scrubland in central-western Victoria and eastern South Australia.