Madurella pseudomycetomatis: an Invalidly Published Name

The taxon Madurella pseudomycetomatis was recently proposed as a new species in a paper by Yan et al. ([2][1]). It was isolated from black granules of the discharging sinuses on the lower jaw of a 27-year-old patient from China. Based on sequence data of the multiloci of ribosomal DNA (rDNA), the