Badimia species form a thin crust on the
substrate, usually pale blue-green to blue-grey and sometimes with a fine, powdery bloom. The surface may be smooth or minutely warted. Their
fruiting bodies (
apothecia) are small that sit tightly on the
thallus and are pinched in at the base; the discs are typically light-coloured and initially shallowly concave, with a low but distinct rim. The apothecial rim tissue () is built of "brick-like" cells () that often grade outward into radiating tissue and are densely packed with colourless crystals. The internal sterile threads (
paraphyses) are slender and mostly simple to only sparsely branched. Spore sacs (
asci) contain eight
ascospores; the spores are
ellipsoid and usually divided by three cross-walls (3-
septate), only rarely showing a more "brick-walled" () division. A conspicuous feature of
Badimia is the presence of campylidia, which are specialised, pocket-like
asexual structures that are closely related in construction to the apothecia. In
Badimia these can be relatively large, sometimes exceeding the apothecia, and their "roof" soon bends back to expose the inner surface. They produce long, thread-like
conidia up to about 130 μm long and 1.5–2.5 μm wide; the conidia are multi-septate, gently curved with sharply pointed tips that often hook back, and many cells bear short, one-sided
hyphal appendages with sticky ends. In practical terms, the combination of a pale bluish crust, tightly seated, often light-coloured discs with a crystal-rich rim, eight-spored asci, predominantly 3-septate spores, and the production of these distinctive curved conidia in campylidia is diagnostic for the genus. ==Species==