Look up: Basidiomycota

1. Basidiomycota
   [n] - comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs)
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2. Basidiomycota
   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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3. Basidiomycota
   subdivision 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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4. Basidiomycota
   `Basidiomycota` is one of two large phyla, that together with the Ascomycota, comprise the subkingdom Dikarya, which were in general what were called the ``Higher Fungi`` within the Kingdom Fungi. More specifically the Basidiomycota include mushrooms, puffballs, stinkhorns, bracket fungi, other polypores, jelly fungi, boletes, chanterelles, earth stars, smuts, bunts, rusts, mirror yeasts, and the human pathogenic yeast,`Cryptococcus`. Basically, ...
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5. Basidiomycota
   `Basidiomycota` is one of two large phyla, that together with the Ascomycota, comprise the subkingdom Dikarya, which were in general what were called the ``Higher Fungi`` within the Kingdom Fungi. More specifically the Basidiomycota include mushrooms, puffballs, stinkhorns, bracket fungi, other polypores, jelly fungi, boletes, chanterelles, earth stars, smuts, bunts, rusts, mirror yeasts, and the human pathogenic yeast,`Cryptococcus`. Basically, ...
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6. Basidiomycota
   a large and diverse phylum of fungi (kingdom Fungi) that includes jelly and shelf, or bracket, fungi; mushrooms, puffballs, and stinkhorns; and the ... [2 related articles]
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7. Basidiomycota
   A phylum of fungi characterized 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.
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