[1] It forms a thin, olive-green crust on clay soil and produces distinctive unbranched, reddish-orange to yellowish reproductive structures.

Sulzbacheromyces chocoensis was formally described as a new species in 2018 by the lichenologists Luis Fernando Coca, Robert Lücking, and Bibiana Moncada.

[2] Molecular phylogenetics analysis based on the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region shows that S. chocoensis belongs to a well-supported Neotropical clade within the genus Sulzbacheromyces, alongside S. tutunendo and S. caatingae.

[2] Sulzbacheromyces chocoensis has only been found in its type locality within the Chocó Biogeographic Region of Colombia, specifically near the village of Tutunendo.

It is considered sympatric with S. tutunendo, meaning both species occur in the same geographical area, though they occupy slightly different ecological niches due to their substrate preferences.