Staurothele pulvinata is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), squamulose lichen in the family Verrucariaceae.

[3] The lichen was first formally described in 1861 by Theodor Magnus Fries, as a member of genus Endocarpon.

[4] The taxon was later transferred to Dermatocarpon by Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1863,[5] and to Polyblastia by Antonio Jatta in 1900.

[6] Starri Heiðmarsson moved it to Staurothele in 2017, based on molecular phylogenetic analysis that showed it belonged to that genus.

Staurothele pulvinata has an arctic-alpine distribution; it has been recorded from Europe, Greenland, Iceland, and the United States.