Madurella is a fungal genus of uncertain position in the Sordariales, and sometimes classified as Mitosporic Ascomycota.
It includes the following species:
Madurella algiris C. W. Dodge, 1935 Madurella americana Gammel, 1927 Madurella bouffardii Vuill, 1931 Madurella brumptii Cif. & Redaelli, 1941 Madurella clapieri Cif. & Redaelli, 1941 Madurella grisea Abd. Ahmed et al., 2014 Madurella fahalii de Hoog et al., 2012 Madurella ikedae Gemmel, 1927 Madurella lackawanna Hanan, 1938 Madurella langeronii Cif. & Redaelli, 1941 Madurella mansonii Vuill, 1931 Madurella mycetomatis Brumpt, 1905 Madurella oswaldoi Horta, 1919 Madurella ramiroi Pirajá, 1918 Madurella reynieri Vuill, 1931 Madurella tropicana de Hoog et al., 2012
Madurella mycetomatis is a main cause of eumycetoma, an infection of human extremities and rarely the nervous system, in arid regions of east Africa and Asia. The origin is soil and its dark agar colonies are often sterile, although sclerotia are often produced, and short chains of 1-celled conidia sometimes occur. A molecular assay distinguishes the four species based on rolling circle amplification of the internal transcribed spacer of the ribosomal DNA (ITS).
References
External links http://www.mycology.adelaide.edu.au/Fungal_Descriptions/Hyphomycetes_(hyaline)/Madurella/