Enchylium bachmanianum is a gelatinous, dark-coloured cyanolichen forming small, jelly-like lobes on moist rock surfaces, soil, and mosses in humid habitats. It contains cyanobacterial photobionts within its thallus, enabling nitrogen fixation. Near Threatened, this inconspicuous lichen is sensitive to habitat drying, disturbance, and the loss of stable, humid microhabitats in its European range.