Diploprora Hook. f.
倒吊蘭屬
Epiphytic herbs. Stems, terete or slightly flattened, ascending or pendulous. Leaves distichous, falcatelanceolate, more or less fleshy, articulated with sheath at base. Flowers few, in lateral raceme; sepals subequal, widely spreading, keeled outside; petals narrower than sepals; lip adnate to base of column, sessile, not movable, consisting of a hypochile and an epichile, hypochile concave, broadly cymbiform, fleshy, margin with a thickened raising wall, disc thickened or with a large callus near center, epichile abruptly narrowed into a thin slender tip, ending in 2 narrow lobes; column short; anther terminal, opercular, 2-celled; pollinia 4, in 2 pairs of 1 large and 1 small, waxy, attached by a short stipe to a small viscidium; stigma entire; rostellum short, retuse.
About two species, distributed in the Himalaya, Myanmar, southern China and Thailand. One species in Taiwan.