Vaucheria

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

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.

Vaucheria exhibits apical growth from the tip of filaments forming mats in either terrestrial or freshwater environments. 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. The chloroplasts are located on the periphery of the cytoplasm with the nuclei aggregating toward the center near the vacuole.

It has a hiplontic life cycle, previously thought to be diplontic.

Species
As accepted by WoRMS;


 * Vaucheria acrandra
 * Vaucheria adela
 * Vaucheria adunca
 * Vaucheria aestuarii
 * Vaucheria alaskana
 * Vaucheria amphibia
 * Vaucheria antarctica
 * Vaucheria arcassonensis
 * Vaucheria arechavaletae
 * Vaucheria aversa
 * Vaucheria bermudensis
 * Vaucheria bicornigera
 * Vaucheria bilateralis
 * Vaucheria birostris
 * Vaucheria borealis Hirn, 1900
 * Vaucheria bursata
 * Vaucheria caloundrensis
 * Vaucheria canalicularis
 * Vaucheria compacta
 * Vaucheria conifera
 * Vaucheria coronata
 * Vaucheria crenulata
 * Vaucheria cruciata
 * Vaucheria dichotoma
 * Vaucheria dillwynii
 * Vaucheria discoidea
 * Vaucheria edaphica
 * Vaucheria erythrospora
 * Vaucheria folliculata
 * Vaucheria fontinalis
 * Vaucheria frigida
 * Vaucheria gardneri
 * Vaucheria geminata (Vaucher) De Candolle, 1805
 * Vaucheria glomerata
 * Vaucheria gyrogyna
 * Vaucheria hamata
 * Vaucheria hercyniana Rieth, 1974
 * Vaucheria hookeri
 * Vaucheria incurva
 * Vaucheria intermedia
 * Vaucheria jaoi
 * Vaucheria javanica
 * Vaucheria jonesii
 * Vaucheria karachiensis
 * Vaucheria karnaphulii
 * Vaucheria leyana
 * Vaucheria lii
 * Vaucheria litorea C.Agardh, 1823
 * Vaucheria longata
 * Vaucheria longicaulis
 * Vaucheria longipes
 * Vaucheria madhuensis
 * Vaucheria mayyanadensis
 * Vaucheria medusa
 * Vaucheria megaspora
 * Vaucheria micranthera
 * Vaucheria minuta
 * Vaucheria mulleola
 * Vaucheria nanandra
 * Vaucheria nasuta
 * Vaucheria orientalis
 * Vaucheria orthocarpa
 * Vaucheria patagonica
 * Vaucheria piloboloides
 * Vaucheria polymorpha
 * Vaucheria prasadense
 * Vaucheria prescottii
 * Vaucheria prolifera
 * Vaucheria prona
 * Vaucheria pronosperma
 * Vaucheria pseudogeminata
 * Vaucheria pseudomonoica
 * Vaucheria racemosa
 * Vaucheria randhawae
 * Vaucheria schleicheri
 * Vaucheria sescuplicaria
 * Vaucheria sessilis (Vaucher) De Candolle, 1805
 * Vaucheria simplex
 * Vaucheria subarechavaletae
 * Vaucheria submarina
 * Vaucheria subsimplex
 * Vaucheria synandra
 * Vaucheria taylorii
 * Vaucheria terrestris (Vaucher) De Candolle, 1805
 * Vaucheria uncinata
 * Vaucheria undulata
 * Vaucheria velutina
 * Vaucheria venkataramanii
 * Vaucheria verticillata
 * Vaucheria vipera
 * Vaucheria walzii
 * Vaucheria woroniniana
 * Vaucheria zapotecana