Madurella
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, 1935Madurella americana Gammel, 1927Madurella bouffardii Vuill, 1931Madurella brumptii Cif. & Redaelli, 1941Madurella clapieri Cif. & Redaelli, 1941Madurella grisea Abd. Ahmed et al., 2014Madurella fahalii de Hoog et al., 2012Madurella ikedae Gemmel, 1927Madurella lackawanna Hanan, 1938Madurella langeronii Cif. & Redaelli, 1941Madurella mansonii Vuill, 1931Madurella mycetomatis Brumpt, 1905Madurella oswaldoi Horta, 1919Madurella ramiroi Pirajá, 1918Madurella reynieri Vuill, 1931Madurella 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.