Vahl, M.(H.) (1805), Enumeratio Plantarum 2: 179 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Australasia"

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 528 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Haemodorum coccineum R.Br. legitimate

Steenis, C.G.G.J. van (December 1954), Haemodoraceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 5(1): 113 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Haemodorum coccineum R.Br. legitimate

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 321 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 214 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Haemodorum coccineum R.Br. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. & Murray, L.R. (1963), Poisonous Plants of the Northern Territory: 32, Fig. 10 [secondary reference]

common name: Blood Root [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 19 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 52 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 40 [secondary reference]

Macfarlane, T.D. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Appendix: Haemodorum. Flora of Australia 45: 463 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "New South Wales, 1792, J.White; lecto (here chosen): LINN 96.2 photo seen (the left-hand and centre inflorescences)."

Macfarlane, T.D. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Haemodorum. Flora of Australia 45: 143-144, Map 155 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Haemodorum teretifolium R.Br. legitimate

Macfarlane, T.D. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Haemodorum. Flora of Australia 45: 146 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Haemodorum coccineum R.Br. legitimate by Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 214

Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5: 5 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Haemodorum ensifolium F.Muell. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 52

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Haemodoraceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 248, pl. 18 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Haemodorum corymbosum Vahl var. corymbosum legitimate taxonomic synonym: Haemodorum teretifolium R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Haemodorum corymbosum var. typicum Domin nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: NSW

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Haemodorum ensifolium F.Muell. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 52

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Haemodorum coccineum R.Br. legitimate by Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 214

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Haemodorum coccineum R.Br. legitimate by Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 214

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