Niebla contorta is a fruticose lichen that grows along the fog regions of the Pacific Coast of North America on the Vizcaíno Peninsula and on the Isla Santa Margarita of Baja California.

Black dot-like pycnidia are common along the margins and cortical ridges of the upper parts of branches.

Lichen substances are divaricatic acid with unidentified accessory triterpenes and pigments that blackened the basal area of the thallus.

[1] Niebla contorta was first collected near Bahía Asunción, 14 May 1986, in regard to developing a lichen flora of Baja California.

[1] It was reportedly common near the beach on white calcareous outcrops, a composite of fossilized sea shells, decomposed limestone (gypsum), and quartz[1] It was later collected near Punta Eugenia and on Isla Santa Margarita.