Vaucheria

Vaucheria
	Vaucheria sp. collected from a paddy field, Tanabe, Wakayama, Japan
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Diaphoretickes
Clade:	SAR
Clade:	Stramenopiles
Phylum:	Gyrista
Subphylum:	Ochrophytina
Class:	Xanthophyceae
Order:	Vaucheriales
Family:	Vaucheriaceae
Genus:	Vaucheria; A.P. de Candolle
Species
	See text

Vaucheria is a genus of Xanthophyceae or yellow-green algae known as water felt.^[1] It is one of only two genera in the family Vaucheriaceae.^[2] The type species of the genus is Vaucheria disperma.^[3]^[4]

The genus was circumscribed by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris vol.3 on page 20 in 1801.

The genus name of Vaucheria is in honour of Jean Pierre Étienne Vaucher (1763–1841), who was a Swiss Protestant pastor and botanist.^[5]

Vaucheria exhibits apical growth from the tip of filaments forming mats in either terrestrial or freshwater environments.^[3]^[4] Its filaments form coenocytes with a large central vacuole pushing against the surrounding cytoplasm; the vacuole extends along the entire filament except for the growing tip.^[4] The chloroplasts are located on the periphery of the cytoplasm with the nuclei aggregating toward the center near the vacuole.^[4]

It has a hiplontic life cycle,^[6] previously thought to be diplontic.

Species

As accepted by WoRMS;^[7]

Vaucheria acrandra Ott & Hommersand, 1974
Vaucheria adela Ott & Hommersand, 1974
Vaucheria adunca C.-C.Jao, 1939
Vaucheria aestuarii Muralidhar, Novis & Broady, 2014
Vaucheria alaskana Blum, 1953
Vaucheria amphibia Randhawa, 1939
Vaucheria antarctica Renisch, 1890
Vaucheria arcassonensis P.J.L.Dangeard, 1939
Vaucheria arechavaletae Magnus & Wille, 1884
Vaucheria aversa Hassall, 1843
Vaucheria bermudensis W.R.Taylor & Bernatowicz, 1952
Vaucheria bicornigera T.J.Entwisle, 1988
Vaucheria bilateralis C.-C.Jao, 1936
Vaucheria birostris J.Simons, 1974
Vaucheria borealis Hirn, 1900
Vaucheria bursata (O.F.Müller) C.Agardh, 1811
Vaucheria caloundrensis A.B.Cribb, 1960
Vaucheria canalicularis (Linnaeus) T.A.Christensen, 1968
Vaucheria compacta (Collins) Collins ex W.R.Taylor, 1937
Vaucheria conifera T.A.Christensen, 1987
Vaucheria coronata Nordstedt, 1879
Vaucheria crenulata Prescott, 1953
Vaucheria cruciata (Vaucher) De Candolle, 1805
Vaucheria dichotoma (Linnaeus) C.Martius, 1817
Vaucheria dillwynii (F.Weber & D.Mohr) C.Agardh, 1811
Vaucheria discoidea C.E.Taft, 1937
Vaucheria edaphica Muralidhar, Novis & Broady, 2014
Vaucheria erythrospora T.A.Christensen, 1956
Vaucheria folliculata Walz, 1871
Vaucheria fontinalis (Linnaeus) T.A.Christensen, 1868
Vaucheria frigida (Roth) C.Agardh, 1824
Vaucheria gardneri Collins, 1907
Vaucheria geminata (Vaucher) De Candolle, 1805
Vaucheria glomerata Blum & Womersley, 1955
Vaucheria gyrogyna T.J.Entwisle, 1988
Vaucheria hamata (Vaucher) De Candolle, 1805
Vaucheria hercyniana Rieth, 1974
Vaucheria hookeri Kützing, 1856
Vaucheria incurva T.A.Christensen, 1986
Vaucheria intermedia Nordstedt, 1879
Vaucheria jaoi S.-H.Ley, 1944
Vaucheria javanica Kützing, 1849
Vaucheria jonesii Prescott, 1938
Vaucheria karachiensis Saifullah, Nizamuddin & Gul, 2003
Vaucheria karnaphulii Islam, 1978
Vaucheria leyana Q.-X.Wang & W.-M.Bao, 1991
Vaucheria lii Rieth, 1959
Vaucheria litorea C.Agardh, 1823
Vaucheria longata Blum, 1953
Vaucheria longicaulis Hoppaugh, 1930
Vaucheria longipes Collins, 1907
Vaucheria madhuensis R.J.Patel, 1980
Vaucheria mayyanadensis
Vaucheria medusa T.A.Christensen, 1952
Vaucheria megaspora Iwanoff, 1900
Vaucheria micranthera P.González, 1944
Vaucheria minuta Blum & Conover, 1953
Vaucheria mulleola Skuja, 1964
Vaucheria nanandra T.J.Entwisle, 1988
Vaucheria nasuta W.R.Taylor & Bernatowicz, 1953
Vaucheria orientalis West & G.S.West, 1908
Vaucheria orthocarpa Reinsch, 1887
Vaucheria patagonica Hylmö, 1938
Vaucheria piloboloides Thuret, 1854
Vaucheria polymorpha H.C.Wood, 1869
Vaucheria prasadense O.N.Srivastava, M.Srivastava & U.S.Prasad, 1987
Vaucheria prescottii A.K.M.N.Islam, 1965
Vaucheria prolifera P.J.L.Dangeard, 1939
Vaucheria prona T.A.Christensen, 1970
Vaucheria pronosperma A.K.M.N.Islam, 1965
Vaucheria pseudogeminata P.J.L.Dangeard, 1939
Vaucheria pseudomonoica F.E.Fritsch & Rich, 1924
Vaucheria racemosa (Vaucher) De Candolle, 1805
Vaucheria randhawae T.A.Sarma & R.S.Rattan, 1990
Vaucheria schleicheri De Wildeman, 1895
Vaucheria sescuplicaria T.A.Christensen, 1952
Vaucheria sessilis (Vaucher) De Candolle, 1805
Vaucheria simplex P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan
Vaucheria subarechavaletae Borge, 1901
Vaucheria submarina (Lyngbye) Berkeley, 1832
Vaucheria subsimplex P.Crouan & H.Crouan, 1867
Vaucheria synandra Woronin, 1869
Vaucheria taylorii Blum, 1971
Vaucheria terrestris (Vaucher) De Candolle, 1805
Vaucheria uncinata Kützing, 1856
Vaucheria undulata C.-C.Jao, 1936
Vaucheria velutina C.Agardh, 1824
Vaucheria venkataramanii T.A.Sarma & R.S.Rattan
Vaucheria verticillata Meneghini, 1837
Vaucheria vipera Blum, 1960
Vaucheria walzii Rothert, 1896
Vaucheria woroniniana Heering, 1907
Vaucheria zapotecana Bonilla-Rodriguez, Garduno-Solorzano, Martinez-Garcia, Campos, Monsalvo-Reyes & Quintanar-Zuniga, 2013

References

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