SECTION Brachypus Schlechter 1913

Lectotype: Bulbophyllum maxillarioides Schltr. (designated by van Royen 1979). SYNONYMS = section Papulipetalum Schltr. 1913;

Characterized by medium sized flowers on single flowered infloescence that seldom exceed the pseudobulbs in height. The pseduopbulbs can be well developed or not. The flowers can have long papillae on the petal apex or be small, undivided and short haired and are small in comparison to the sepals which can be equal or can have the laterals longer. The lip is small, thick and fleshy to glabrous and often shorter but seldom longer than the column which has sublate stelida and a narrow foot.

1. Bulbophyllum arsoanum J.J.Sm. 1912 New Guinea

2. Bulbophyllum brevilabium Schltr. 1913 New Guinea

3. Bulbophyllum ellipticifolium J.J.Sm. 1935 New Guinea

4. Bulbophyllum hians Schltr. 1913 New Guinea

5. Bulbophyllum latibrachiatum J.J.Sm. 1908 New Guinea

6. Bulbophyllum lineolatum Schltr. 1913 New Guinea

7. Bulbophyllum longipedicellatum J.J. Sm. 1910 Papua and New Guinea

8. Bulbophyllum lorentzianum J.J.Sm. 1910 New Guinea

9. Bulbophyllum maxillarioides Schltr. 1905 Papua New Guinea

10. Bulbophyllum nematopodum F. Muell. 1872

11. Bulbophyllum rhodostictum Schltr. 1913 Papua New Guinea

12. Bulbophyllum samoanum Schltr. 1911 New Hebrides, Fija, New Caledonia and Samoa

13. Bulbophyllum sp. New Guinea New Guinea

14. Bulbophyllum umbraticola Schltr. 1913 Papua New Guinea

15. Bulbophyllum variculosum J.J.Verm. 2008 western New Guinea

    References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; New species of Bulbophyllum from eastern Malesia (Orchidaceae) Nordic Journal of Botany 26: 129
    195, 2008 Vermuellen; Bulbophyllum of Sulawesi Verm & O'Byrne 2011