basidiomycetes

1. Large class of higher fungi coextensive with subdivision Basidiomycota (synset 113017601)
   is a type of: class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
   member holonym:

   • homobasidiomycetes, subclass homobasidiomycetes - category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including e.g. mushrooms and puffballs which are usually placed in the classes Gasteromycetes and Hymenomycetes
   • heterobasidiomycetes, subclass heterobasidiomycetes - category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including rusts and smuts
   • basidiomycete, basidiomycetous fungi - any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota
   • order tremellales, tremellales - fungi varying from gelatinous to waxy or even horny in texture; most are saprophytic
   • auriculariales, order auriculariales - coextensive with the family Auriculariaceae; sometimes included in the order Tremellales
   • order uredinales, uredinales - rust fungi: parasitic fungi causing rust in plants; sometimes placed in
   belongs to: basidiomycota, basidiomycotina, subdivision basidiomycota, subdivision basidiomycotina - 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
   same as: class basidiomycetes

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