Styphelia densifolia is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with erect branches, crowded, erect, oblong leaves long and striated on the lower surface, and white, tube-shaped flowers arranged singly in upper leaf axils.[1]
It was first formally described in 1868 by George Bentham who gave it the name Leucopogon flavescens var. brevifolius in his Flora Australiensis from specimens collected by James Drummond.[2]
In 2020, Michael Clyde Hislop, Darren M. Crayn and Caroline Puente-Lelievre transferred it to the genus Styphelia and raised it to species status. Since the name Styphelia flavescens was used for a different species, (Styphelia flavescens (Sond.) F.Muell.)[3] the species was given the name Styphelia densifolia.
Styphelia densifolia occurs between Jerramungup and Jerdacuttup in the Esperance Plains bioregion of south-western Western Australia.