basidiomycota

1. 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 (synset 113016985)
   is a type of: division - (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
   member holonym:

   • basidiomycetes, class basidiomycetes - large class of higher fungi coextensive with subdivision Basidiomycota
   • class hymenomycetes, hymenomycetes - used in some classifications; usually coextensive with order Agaricales: mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi
   • agaricales, order agaricales - typical gilled mushrooms belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota
   • class gasteromycetes, class gastromycetes, gasteromycetes, gastromycetes - fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi
   • aphyllophorales, order aphyllophorales - includes chiefly saprophytic fungi typically with shelflike bodies; sometimes placed in class Hymenomycetes or included in Agaricales
   • class tiliomycetes, tiliomycetes - category used in some systems to comprise the two orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)
   • order ustilaginales, ustilaginales - parasitic fungi causing smuts; sometimes placed in class Tiliomycetes
   • family septobasidiaceae, septobasidiaceae - a family of fungi belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota
   belongs to: division eumycota, eumycota - true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi)
   same as: basidiomycotina, subdivision basidiomycota, subdivision basidiomycotina

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