Associations to the word «Basidiomycota»

Wiktionary

BASIDIOMYCOTA, proper noun. A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Fungi   — 30,000 species of fungi that produce spores from a basidium.

Dictionary definition

BASIDIOMYCOTA, noun. 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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