Niebla tesselata is a fruticose lichen that grows on rocks along the foggy Pacific Coast of in the Northern Vizcaíno Desert of Baja California.

Niebla tesselata is distinguished by the thallus divided into tubular branches from a pale rusty orange pigmented holdfast, the branches generally narrowly conical, simple, densely covered by black dot-like pycnidia[2][3] positioned centrally on areolae, and by containing sekikaic acid, with triterpenes.

Also, pycnidia are not confined to the upper parts of the branches as in most species of the genus; instead, they extend to the base of the thallus.

[1] Niebla tesselata was recognized as a result of undertaking a taxonomic revision of the genus in regard to developing a lichen flora of Baja California, which began in 1986.

[1] At the time the species (N. tesselata) was being published, it was only known from the holotype (biology), collected 4 April 1994, Richard Spjut & Richard Marin 13108, deposited in the United States National Herbarium (Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Natural History, Botany Department).