autobasidiomyceten.
/ˌɔːtə(ʊ)bəˌsɪdɪə(ʊ)ˈmʌɪsiːt/, U.S. /ˌɔdoʊbəˌsɪdioʊˈmaɪsit/, /ˌɑdoʊbəˌsɪdioʊˈmaɪsit/ Mycology. Now chiefly historical.
A fungus belonging to the Autobasidiomycetes, a former division of the phylum Basidiomycota (the basidiomycetes), including mushrooms, toadstools, and related fungi having an autobasidium.
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aecidium1751
Lactarius1821
Armillaria1829
russula1835
hyphomycetes1836
Penicillium1836
discomycete1842
Ascomycetes1857
Pyrenomycetes1857
coniomycetes1866
phalloid1880
gasteromycete1885
hymenomycete1887
Zygomycetes1887
phycomycete1889
autobasidiomycete1895
Phomopsis1911
Rhizoctonia1916
1889 Jrnl. Mycol. 5 99 The Basidiomycetes separate naturally into two divisions, Protobasidiomycetes with divided basidia, and Autobasidiomycetes with undivided basidia.]
1895 M. C. Cooke Introd. Study Fungi ii. x. 115 The Basidiomycetes are arranged in two groups: (1) The Protobasidiomycetes..(2) the Autobasidiomycetes, in which the basidia are not septate, and bear a definite number of basidiospores.
1907 D. H. Campbell University Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 180 The greater number of the more familiar larger Fungi belong to the Autobasidiomycetes, of which the Toadstools and Puffballs are the types.
1937 H. Gwynne-Vaughan & B. F. Barnes Struct. & Devel. Fungi (ed. 2) 326 The Autobasidiomycetes include between 12,000 and 13,000 species; they are cosmopolitan in distribution.
1967 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 54 1188/2 We were able to observe in detail the various stages of prophase in an autobasidiomycete.
2001 K. Wells & R. Bandoni in D. J. McLaughlin et al. Mycota VII. iv. 86/2 Brefeld (1888) divided the Basidiomycetes into the Protobasidiomycetes..and the Autobasidiomycetes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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