Characterised by its white thallus, punctiform (dot-like) soralia and norstictic acid content, this lichen is readily recognisable when fertile.

The type specimen was collected in a coastal rainforest on Sapi Island (the location of a public marine park), near Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.

[2] Although the presence of ascomata on the soredia might initially suggest a parasitic relationship, this was ruled out by the authors because of the identical chemistry of both the thallus and the ascomatal margin.

It forms a continuous to finely areolate pattern that can cover a large area of the bark surface.

[2] Enterographa kinabaluensis is known only from its type locality in a coastal rainforest on Sapi Island, near Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.