Pachystegia insignis is a species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to New Zealand.
The species was first described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1855, who named the species Olearia insignis. 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.
Cheeseman described the species as follows: