Found in Papua New Guinea, it was formally described as a new species in 2022 by Shirley Cunha Feuerstein and Robert Lücking.

The type specimen was collected by André Aptroot from a primary montane forest in Myola (Owen Stanley Range, Central Province), at an elevation of 2,100 m (6,900 ft).

The specific epithet salazinicoides refers to its resemblance with Carbacanthographis salazinica, from which it differs by having larger ascospores.

[1] The lichen has a pale beige to whitish thallus with a thin cortex and a dark brown prothallus.

It has hyaline ascospores that measure 40–60 by 8 μm; these spores are muriform, meaning they are divided into chambers with longitudinal and transverse septa.