Drosera oreopodion

{{Short description|Species of plant}}

{{Use Australian English|date=June 2025}}

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| image = Drosera oreopodion 2.jpg

| genus = Drosera

| species = oreopodion

| authority = N.G.Marchant & Lowrie

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Drosera oreopodion is a species of sundew and a member of the carnivorous plant family Droseraceae. It is endemic to the foothills of the Darling Range of Western Australia. It is most noteworthy for being the smallest of all carnivorous plants, with leaves only {{cvt|5.5|mm}} length, of which the sticky, circular lamina is only 1.5 mm wide. It is a fairly recent discovery, being unknown prior to 1987 when discovered by Allen Lowrie.{{cite journal | last1= Marchant | first1=Neville | last2= Lowrie | first2= Allen | date=June 1992 | title= New Names and New Combinations in 34 taxa of Western Australia | journal= Kew Bulletin | volume= 47 | issue= 2 | pages= 326–327 | doi=10.2307/4110677 | jstor=4110677 }}{{Cite web |last=Western Australian Herbarium |first=Biodiversity and Conservation Science |title=Florabase—the Western Australian Flora |url=https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/13189 |access-date=2022-11-08 |website=florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Drosera oreopodion N. Marchant & Lowrie - Encyclopedia of Life |url=https://eol.org/pages/5471144 |access-date=2022-11-08 |website=eol.org}}{{Cite web |title=Drosera oreopodion N.G.Marchant & Lowrie {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:961191-1 |access-date=2022-11-08 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}{{Cite book |last1=Ellison |first1=Aaron M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l_pADwAAQBAJ&dq=drosera+oreopodion&pg=PA388 |title=Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution |last2=Adamec |first2=Lubomír |date=2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-877984-1 |language=en}} The very thin (almost capillary) inflorescence is {{cvt|3.5|cm}} height.Marchant and Lowrie (June 1992) op. cit.