Niebla versiforma is a rare fruticose lichen that grows on gravelly soil along the foggy Pacific Coast of Baja California on a mesa above San Antonio del Mar just north of Punta Colonet.

Niebla versiforma is distinguished by the thallus divided into numerous branches and branchlets entangled together into a hemispherical or ball like mat, similar to the reindeer lichen, Cladonia rangiferina; the primary branches somewhat ribbon-like with variously widened and narrow twisted parts, bearing crooked spinuliferous branchlets, to 4 cm high and 6 cm across, and further distinguished by containing divaricatic acid, with triterepenes.

Mammillaria dioica, Frankenia palmeri, Eriogonum fastigiatum, and Rosa minutifolia, recognized as transitional vegetation between the California chaparral and desert scrub south of El Rosario.

[1] The species (N. versiforma) has also been treated as Niebla homalea based on its lichen metabolite, divaricatic acid, without distinction to morphological differences, all of which are viewed as related to environmental variation.

[2] However, because of the different taxonomic views of the genus Niebla, it has been suggested in a review that molecular phylogeny studies are needed.