English > Basidiomycetes: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | large class of higher fungi coextensive with subdivision Basidiomycota. |
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| Synonym | class Basidiomycetes |
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| Member of | Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycota, Basidiomycotina, subdivision Basidiomycotina | Comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium |
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| Members | Auriculariales, order Auriculariales | coextensive with the family Auriculariaceae |
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| Heterobasidiomycetes, subclass Heterobasidiomycetes | category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including rusts and smuts |
| Homobasidiomycetes, subclass Homobasidiomycetes | category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including e.g. mushrooms and puffballs which are usually placed in the classes ... / classes Gasteromycetes and Hymenomycetes |
| Tremellales, order Tremellales | fungi varying from gelatinous to waxy or even horny in texture |
| Uredinales, order Uredinales | rust fungi |
| basidiomycete, basidiomycetous fungi | Any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota |
| Broader | class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
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| Spanish | basidiomicetes, Basidiomycetes |
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