Genoplesium rufum, commonly known as the rufous midge-orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to New South Wales.

It was formerly thought to range from Queensland to South Australia and Tasmania but specimens in other states are now assigned to Genoplesium clivicola.

Genoplesium rufum is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, sympodial herb with a single wiry leaf fused to the flowering stem.

[3][2] The rufous midge orchid was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name Prasophyllum rufum and published the description in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.

[11] The rufous midge-orchid is locally common in forest between Ku-ring-gai and Bargo.