Darwinia taxifolia is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an erect or low-lying shrub with laterally compressed leaves. The flowers are pink or purplish and usually arranged in groups of two to four.
Darwinia taxifolia is an erect or low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . Its leaves are long and laterally compressed so that they are thicker than wide. The flowers are arranged in clusters of 2 to 4, rarely up to 6, the clusters on a peduncle about long surrounded by rough, leaf-like bracts and pink or purplish bracteoles long. The floral tube is long and wide, and the style is red. Flowering occurs from September to December.[1]
Darwinia taxifolia was first formally described in 1825 by Allan Cunningham in Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales, based on plant material collected from rocky areas of the Blue Mountains.[2] [3] The specific epithet (taxifolia) means "yew tree-leaved".[4]
In 1962, Barbara G. Briggs described three subspecies in Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, and the names of two are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:
Subspecies macrolaena grows in heath and is found from the Blue Mountains to Nerriga and Tomerong in south-eastern New South Wales, and subspecies taxifolia is restricted to heath on elevated sites in the Blue Mountains.