English > Basidiomycota: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi. |
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| Synonyms | subdivision Basidiomycota, Basidiomycotina, subdivision Basidiomycotina |
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| Member of | Eumycota, division Eumycota | true fungi |
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| Members | Agaricales, order Agaricales | typical gilled mushrooms belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota |
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| Aphyllophorales, order Aphyllophorales | Includes chiefly saprophytic fungi typically with shelflike bodies |
| Basidiomycetes, class Basidiomycetes | large class of higher fungi coextensive with subdivision Basidiomycota |
| Gasteromycetes, class Gasteromycetes, Gastromycetes, class Gastromycetes | fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured |
| Hymenomycetes, class Hymenomycetes | Used in some classifications |
| Septobasidiaceae, family Septobasidiaceae | A family of fungi belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota |
| Tiliomycetes, class Tiliomycetes | category used in some systems to comprise the two orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) |
| Ustilaginales, order Ustilaginales | Parasitic fungi causing smuts |
| Broader | division | (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum |
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| Catalan | Basidiomycota |
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