Basidiomycota

1. (noun) comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrums; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi
Synonyms: Basidiomycotina, subdivision Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycotina
Related Words: division



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