Haemodorum brevicaule is a perennial herb from 0.025 to 0.3 m tall, in the bloodroot family, the Haemodoraceae,[2] native to northern Australia.

[3] It has deep-red to purplish-black flowers[4] which are seen from September to December, and it grows on red clay and basalt.

[6] Mueller[1] in 1858, gave this species the specific epithet, brevicaule, which derives from the Latin brevi- (short),[7] and caulis (stem),[8] giving the meaning 'short-stemmed'.

[2] It is found in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland in the IBRA regions of the Northern Kimberley, Victoria Bonaparte,[2] Arnhem Coast, Darwin Coastal, Northern Kimberley, Pine Creek, Central Arnhem, Tiwi Cobourg, Arnhem Plateau, Gulf Coastal, Daly Basin, the Cape York Peninsula region[9] in open eucalypt forest in dry sandy soils, and also in places that are seasonally flooded.

[10][11] The syntype is held in the National Herbarium of Victoria and was collected by Mueller in 1855 towards the Macadam range in the Victoria-Daly region of the Northern Territory.