{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Speciesbox |image = Haemodorum gracile.png |image_caption = NSW811719<ref name=gbif>{{Cite web |title=GBIF: ''Haemodorum gracile'' - Occurrence Detail 2828038624 |url=https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2828038624 |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=www.gbif.org |language=en}}</ref> |taxon = Haemodorum gracile |authority = T.D.Macfarl. |range_map = Haemodorum gracileDistMap12.png }}
'''''Haemodorum gracile''''' is a plant in the Haemodoraceae (blood root) family, native to Western Australia,<ref name="powo">{{Cite web |title=''Haemodorum gracile'' T.D.Macfarl. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:932528-1|access-date=2023-01-24 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}</ref> and was first described by Terry Desmond Macfarlane in 1987.<ref name="florabase">{{Cite web |last=Grazyna Paczkowska |date=1994-06-22 |title=Haemodorum gracile T.Macfarlane |url=https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/1467 |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=FloraBase - The Western Australian Flora |publisher=Western Australian Herbarium}}</ref><ref name=macfarl>{{cite journal|author=Macfarlane, T.D. |editor= George, A.S.|date=1987|title= Appendix: Haemodorum|journal= Flora of Australia |volume=45|pages= 464}}</ref>
It is a bulbous perennial herb, growing from 0.4 to 0.65 m high, on sands and sandy clays in the west Kimberley region of Western Australia.<ref name=foa2>{{cite journal|author=T.D.Macfarlane|title=Haemodorum gracile |journal=Flora of Australia|publisher= Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, the Environment and Water: Canberra|url= https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Haemodorum%20gracile| access-date= 24 January 2023}}</ref> Its red/brown flowers are seen from August to November.<ref name=florabase/>
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gracile Category:Flora of Western Australia Category:Taxa named by Terry Desmond Macfarlane Category:Plants described in 1987
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