Pachystegia insignis is a species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.

[1] It was recognised as a member of the genus Pachystegia by Thomas Frederic Cheeseman, whose description was posthumously published in the Manual of the New Zealand Flora (second edition) in 1925.

[1] Cheeseman described the species as follows: A low robust spreading shrub 1–6 ft. high, rarely more; branches stout, densely tomentose.

broad, oblong or oblong-ovate or narrow-obovate, obtuse, equal or unequal at the base, quite entire, excessively thick and coriaceous, glabrous and shining above, under-surface thickly clothed with white appressed tomentum, becoming fulvous or red when dry, veins evident on both surfaces; petiole 4-2in.

long, stout, evenly tomentose, naked or with a few foliaceous bracts immediately below the head.