Definition of Basidiomycota
1. 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.
Generic synonyms: Division
Group relationships: Division Eumycota, Eumycota
Member holonyms: Basidiomycetes, Class Basidiomycetes, Class Hymenomycetes, Hymenomycetes, Agaricales, Order Agaricales, Class Gasteromycetes, Class Gastromycetes, Gasteromycetes, Gastromycetes, Aphyllophorales, Order Aphyllophorales, Class Tiliomycetes, Tiliomycetes, Order Ustilaginales, Ustilaginales, Family Septobasidiaceae, Septobasidiaceae
Medical Definition of Basidiomycota
1. A phylum of fungi characterised by a spore-bearing organ, the basidium, that is usually a clavate cell that bears basidiospores after karyogamy and meiosis. Some mycologists have raised the class Basidiomycetes to the phylum or division level. (05 Mar 2000)
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