SECTION Hoplandra Verm 2008

TYPE = Bulbophyllum restrepia Ridl. 1893

Species of this section share the following characters: the basal node of the pedicel is level to above the attachment of the floral bract, the median sepal has a sharply conduplicate apical part. Lateral sepals distinctly longer than the median. Column foot not widened nor thickened. Anther with an upturned, distinctly widened and thickened top part.

There are about 10 species in this section from montane forests up to 1200 meters in penninsular Malaysia and Sumatra and then eastward to the Pacific Islands

1. Bulbophyllum baladeanum J.J.Sm. 1912 New Caledonia

2. Bulbophyllum chthonochroma J.J.Verm. & Sieder 2015 Papua New Guinea

3. Bulbophyllum contortisepalum J.J. Sm. 1912 New Guinea

4. Bulbophyllum diplohelix J.J.Verm. & Rysy 2014 western New Guinea

5. Bulbophyllum drepananthum J.J.Verm., de Vogel & A.Vogel 2010 Bismarck Archipelago

6. Bulbophyllum drepanosepalum J.J.Verm. & P.O'Byrne 1993 Papua New Guinea
7. Bulbophyllum falciferum J.J. Sm. 1910 New Guinea

8. Bulbophyllum freitagii Jenny 2019 New Guinea

9. Bulbophyllum himantosepalum J.J.Verm. & Sieder 2015 Papua New Guinea

10. Bulbophyllum inaequisepalum Schltr. 1923 Papua New Guinea

11. Bulbophyllum irianae de Vogel, Suhartawan, Hoogend. & Heatubun 2018 western New Guinea

12. Bulbophyllum louisiadum Schltr. 1919 The Louisiade Archipelago of New Guinea

13. Bulbophyllum ngoyense Schltr. 1906 New Caledonia

14. Bulbophyllum obovatifolium J.J.Sm. 1912 New Guinea

15. Bulbophyllum potamophilum Schltr.1913 New Guinea

16. *!Bulbophyllum restrepia Ridl. 1893 Singapore, Johor and Pahang Malaysia