[3] Bulbophyllum teretifolium was first formally described in 1905 by Rudolf Schlechter and the description was published in Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie.

[1] A plan by the interested parties (Pollard, Cribb and others) to propagate a small part of the plant that was removed, is now underway.

Pollard had observed that the garden that surrounds the plant's host has been fenced, affording it better-than-nothing protection.

[1] Bulbophyllum kupense is regarded as a synonym of B. teretifolium by the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families.

[3] Bulbophyllum teretifolium grows in forest threatened by deforestation, hunting and clearing for agriculture but with no conservation status.