SECTION Schistopetalum Schlechter 1913

Lectotype: Bulbophyllum schistopetalum Schltr. (designated by J. J. Vermeulen and O’Byrne 2008)

Charcterized by growing on mossless tree trunks with a downward creeping rhizome which give rise to at brief intervals, short, more or less angular pseudobulbs carrying a longer leaf. The short inflorescence are single flowered and resemble flowers within Peltopus but with lartger split petals [with one exception] into 5 to 9 segments at the top. The lip has two rounded auricles at the base and the column has long sublate stelida with a rather long column foot.

1. Bulbophyllum chimaera Schltr. 1913 Papua and New Guinea

2. Bulbophyllum barbavagabundum 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