Madurella Brumpt, Compt.-Rend. Séances Mém. Soc. Biol. 58: 999 (1905)

Index Fungorum number: IF 8824; MycoBank number: MB 8824; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13039; 15 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 3 species with sequence data.

Type species – Madurella mycetomatis (Laveran) Brumpt

Notes – Madurella was introduced by Brumpt (1905) to accommodate the species Streptothrix mycetomatis. Madurella species are the causative agents of mycetoma in humans worldwide (Findlay et al. 1979, Mukerji & Manoharachary 2010, de Hoog et al. 2012, Bolis et al. 2018, Norina et al. 2018, Mekoguem et al. 2019). The genus is characterised by asexual morphs with slow-growing, white to brown colonies, hyphae producing chlamydospores, and conidiophores and conidia have not been observed (Seifert et al. 2011).

Species

  • Madurella mycetomatis