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status: Needs presentation of evidence before acceptance "This monotypic genus was published by Clements & Jones (2002) to accommodate the species previously known as Bulbophyllum pygmaeum. They presented a diagnosis with the comment that several genera were being segregated "resulting from detailed morphological and molecular studies that will be published elsewhere." I have not found phylogenies that include B. pygmaeum and I note Chase et al. (http://www.orchids.co.in/orchid-plant/orchid-i.shtm) and Felix & Guerra (2010) do not accept Ichthyostomum. The genus was accepted by Breitwieser et al. 2012, but not as endemic, apparently an error based on an erroneous record (Moore in Moore & Edgar 1970) of B. pygmeum from Lord Howe Island (I. Schönberger pers. comm.). Rodd & Pickard (1983) record only B. tuberculatum from Lord Howe Island."

Garnock-Jones, P.J. 2014: Evidence-based review of the taxonomic status of New Zealand’s endemic seed plant genera. New Zealand Journal of Botany 52(2): 163–212.