{{Short description|Species of plant}} {{Speciesbox | image = | genus = Haemodorum | species = collevatum | authority = T.D Macfarl. & R.L Barrett | range_map = }}
'''''Haemodorum collevatum''''', commonly called the '''clothesline bloodroot''', is named after the iconic Australian Hills Hoist clothesline because the way it produces flowers on long horizontal branches to the plant.<ref name=29nov>{{cite news |title='Looked like a Hills hoist': Australian native plant named for backyard icon |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-11-29/hills-hoist-clothesline-bloodroot-australian-invention-plant/106075212 |access-date=29 November 2025 |work=ABC News |date=29 November 2025 |language=en-AU}}</ref>
The plant was originally identified as being ''H. planifolium'' but, after reviewing collected specimens for this species, the collection was identified as containing four unique species.<ref name="29nov" /> These new species allied to ''H. planifolium'' are ''Haemodorum brevistylum'' T.Macfarlane & R.L.Barrett, ''Haemodorum celsum'' R.L.Barrett & T.Macfarlane and this ''Haemodorum collevatum'' T.Macfarlane & R.L.Barrett.<ref name="Nuystia36">{{cite journal |last1=Western Australian Herbarium |first1=Biodiversity and Conservation Science |title=Florabase—the Western Australian flora |journal=Nuytsia |volume=36 |page=165 |url=https://florabase.dbca.wa.gov.au/nuytsia/article/1088 |access-date=29 November 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
==Description== They grow from a bulb approximately 60–200mm below the ground with a single stem rising up to 1350mm above the ground. These form panicles at near right angles to the stem. The 4–6 branches grow up to 450mm from the stem and they can have additional branches from them. Flowers that form at the terminals of these branches are about 1–14mm long with the sepals being marginally smaller. Colour of the flower is yellow red tips graduating to green on the lower part. They flower in November to December and produce fruit in December to January.<ref name="plantnet">{{cite web |title=PlantNET - FloraOnline |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Haemodorum~collevatum |website=plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au |publisher=National Herbarium of NSW, and Sydney Botanic Gardens |access-date=29 November 2025}}</ref>
The species name is derived by combining the Latin word for hill ''collis'' and the word for lifting up as in hoist ''levatum.'' This is because the way the plant flowers resembles a Hills Hoist.<ref name="29nov" />
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collevatum Category:Flora of New South Wales