NAME Vizella Saccardo 1883.
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Ascomycetes, Microthyriales.
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Shortensis Dilcher 1965, p. 29.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: Colonies epicuticular. Free hyphae dichotomize frequently. Ascocarp round, consists of numerous irregularly arranged pseudoparenchymatous cells, margins sometimes radiate. Ascocarp has one central ostiole; no specialized cells surround ostiole. Pycnidium diminutive, otherwise identical to ascocarp. Ascospores 2-celled (1-septate), composed of a small hyaline cell and a large non-hyaline cell; pycnidiospores single-celled, ovate to elliptical.

Monotypic.
COMMENTS* The genus Shortensis is established here for species of the genus Manginula for which perfect stages are known. Only one species, Manginula perseae, has been described. The genus Manginula was established by Arnaud (1918). He found sterile mycelia and pycnidia on leaves of Perseae palustris from Green Cove, Florida, and sterile mycelia on unidentified coriaceous leaves from Puerto-Zamuro in the area of the upper Orinoco River in Venezuela, which he assigned to the genus Manginula. The only description Arnaud gave of the "ascostroma" is that it is light colored and subcuticular. He did not mention either asci or ascospores nor did he illustrate any perfect stage for the genus. He classified Manginula on the basis of the mycelial and pycnidial material he had at his disposal and included it in the Fungi Imperfecti. Ainsworth & Bisby (1950) included Manginula in the Sphaeropsidales, an order of Fungi Imperfecti that reproduce by means of conidia borne in pycnidia. Clements & Shear (1931) put this genus in the form family Leptostromataceae, in which the pycnidia are shield-shaped or elongate and flattened. Since perfect as well as imperfect stages are known for the fossil material described here, this fungal form is placed in the new genus Shortensis in the family Micropeltaceae (subfamily Stomiopeltoideae) in the Ascomycetes.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Dilcher DL. 1965. Epiphyllous fungi from Eocene deposits in western Tennessee, U.S.A.; Palaeontographica, Abt. B, v. 116, p. 1-54.
K&J REMARKS As for the type species. Also see Manginula. Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000) accept here that the syntypes cited by Dilcher are in organic connection, and hence together form a single holotype. One aspect of the latter was selected by Jansonius & Hills (1976) as lectotype; however, Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000) treat that as an epitype, and accept the name as validly published in 1965.
TYPE TYPE: Shortensis memorabilis Dilcher 1965, p. 29, pls. 17-21, figs. 135-148, 150-161 (syntypes) [pl. 19, fig. 147, lectotype selected by Jansonius & Hills (1976), card no. 2592].
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Vizella Saccardo 1883.;
SERIAL NUMBER 1560
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.