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Basidiomycota

DEFINITIONS OF: Basidiomycota

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n 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

Synonyms:
Basidiomycotina, subdivision Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycotina
Type of:
division
(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
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