Kuettlingeria albolutescens is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae.

The lichen was first formally described by the Finnish lichenologist William Nylander in 1881, originally as a member of the genus Lecanora.

This species is characterized by a thallus that is thin and leprose (powdery), spreading out thinly towards the edges without forming the thickened lobes typically seen in Kuettlingeria teicholyta.

The surface of the thallus in Kuettlingeria albolutescens does not have a cortex and is irregularly covered with grey soredia, which have a dull violet reaction when tested with a solution of potassium hydroxide (i.e., the K spot test).

[5] Apothecia in Kuettlingeria albolutescens are relatively uncommon but quite noticeable when they do appear.