[4] Graphis neeladriensis forms a thin, crusty (crustose) growth on tree bark, appearing greenish-grey to grey in colour with a smooth to cracked, shiny surface.

Like all lichens, it is a symbiotic organism consisting of a fungus and an alga living together in a structured thallus (body), which in this case is 80–160 micrometres thick.

In G. neeladriensis, these lirellae are partially sunken into the thallus surface and can be either short or long (0.2–3.5 millimetres), simple or occasionally branched.

[4] When exposed to ultraviolet light, G. neeladriensis glows yellow due to the presence of a chemical compound called lichexanthone.

[4] The species has only been found in the Neeladri range of Tirumala hills in Andhra Pradesh, India, where it grows on the bark of jackfruit trees (Artocarpus heterophyllus) at an elevation of around 650 metres.