D. macrophylla was first described by John Lindley in his 1839 publication A sketch of the vegetation of the Swan River Colony.

In 1992, Allen Lowrie and Sherwin Carlquist described a new subspecies, D. macrophylla subsp.

macrophylla by its single-flowered or rarely biflowered inflorescences.

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