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|accepted_name=Tipularia discolor
|accepted_authority=(Pursh) Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|place=2: 195. 1818
|year=1818
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Orchis discolor
|authority=Pursh
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|publication_place=2: 586. 1814
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tipularia unifolia
|authority=(Muhlenberg) Britton, Sterns & Poggenberg
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Calypsoeae;Tipularia;Tipularia discolor
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Calypsoeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tipularia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tipularia discolor]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 623
|treatment_page=page 624
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>10–65 cm. <b>Corms</b> 7–30(–50) mm diam. <b>Stems</b> scapose, glabrous, basally 1–2-sheathed. <b>Leaves</b> persisting over winter; petioles 3–15 cm; blade purple abaxially, green or greenish purple adaxially, ovate, 5–10.5 × 2.5–7 cm. <b>Inflorescences</b> 8–28 cm; floral bracts 0.2 mm. <b>Flowers</b> green, pale greenish yellow, or greenish purple, (5–)10–55; sepals distinct and free, oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate, 5–8 × 1.5–2.8 mm; petals linear-oblong to oblong-elliptic to linear-oblanceolate, 4–7 × 1–1.8 mm; lip 5–8 × 2.5–3 mm, with 2 prominent basal lobes, spur 10–23 mm; column 2.5–4 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 9–12 × 4–5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun (north)–Sep (south).
|habitat=In humus-rich soil of deciduous woodlands, frequently in sandy, acid oak-pine woods of Southeast, often in depressions under sweet gum
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Tipularia discolor</i> is pollinated by noctuid moths, the pollinaria attaching to either the left or right compound eye depending on whether the column of a particular flower is slightly twisted to the left or to the right (W. P. Stoutamire 1978).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Tipularia discolor
|authority=(Pursh) Nuttall
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Tipularia unifolia
|basionyms=Orchis discolor
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun (north)–Sep (south).
|habitat=In humus-rich soil of deciduous woodlands, frequently in sandy, acid oak-pine woods of Southeast, often in depressions under sweet gum
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|publication year=1818
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1277.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Calypsoeae
|genus=Tipularia
|species=Tipularia discolor
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