[2] It contains the single species Verrucoplaca verruculifera, a widely distributed saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen that grows on coastal rocks.

The genus Verrucoplaca was circumscribed in 2014 by lichenologists Sergey Kondratyuk, Ingvar Kärnefelt, John Alan Elix, Arne Thell, and Jae-Seoun Hur, following a molecular phylogenetics-led restructuring of the subfamily Xanthorioideae.

Within the apothecia, the layer beneath the spore-producing surface, known as the subhymenium, is dotted with oil droplets.

The lichen produces conidia (asexual spores) that are narrowly oval in shape.

A primary distinguishing chemical component of this genus are the anthraquinones associated with the parietin chemosyndrome.