Basidiomycota

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Basidiomycota - 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 FungiBasidiomycotina, subdivision Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycotinadivision - (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylumdivision Eumycota, Eumycota - true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi)Basidiomycetes, class Basidiomycetes - large class of higher fungi coextensive with subdivision Basidiomycotaclass Hymenomycetes, Hymenomycetes - used in some classifications; usually coextensive with order Agaricales: mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungiAgaricales, order Agaricales - typical gilled mushrooms belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycotaclass Gasteromycetes, class Gastromycetes, Gasteromycetes, Gastromycetes - fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungiAphyllophorales, order Aphyllophorales - includes chiefly saprophytic fungi typically with shelflike bodies; sometimes placed in class Hymenomycetes or included in Agaricalesclass 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 Tiliomycetesfamily Septobasidiaceae, Septobasidiaceae - a family of fungi belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota

Basidiomycota

Basidiomycota,

a phylum of the kingdom FungiFungi
, kingdom of heterotrophic single-celled, multinucleated, or multicellular organisms, including yeasts, molds, and mushrooms. The organisms live as parasites, symbionts, or saprobes (see saprophyte).
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Basidiomycota

A phylum in the kingdom fungi; commonly known as basidiomycetes. Basidiomycetes traditionally included four artificial classes: Hymenomycetes, Gasteromycetes, Urediniomycetes, and Ustilaginomycetes. They are mostly filamentous fungi characterized by the production of basidia. These are microscopic, often club-shaped end cells in which nuclear fusion and meiosis usually take place prior to the maturation of external, typically haploid basidiospores, which are then disseminated. Common basidiomycetes are the rusts and smuts, which cause severe plant diseases, mushrooms (edible and poisonous), boletes, puffballs, stinkhorns, chanterelles, false truffles, jelly fungi, bird's-nest fungi, and conk or bracket fungi. Basidiomycetes are the most important decayers of wood, living or dead, in forests or buildings, causing either brown rot (for example, dry rot) or white rot. Many, especially mushrooms and boletes, are the primary fungal partners in symbiotic ectomycorrhizal associations with tree roots. Plant litter and soil are other major habitats. A few basidiomycetes are cultivated for food. Some are luminescent, hallucinogenic, lichenized, nematophagous, or aquatic. Some are cultivated by ants or termites, or are symbiotic with captured scale insects. Some can convert to a yeast (or single-cell) phase, one of which causes cryptococcosis in humans and animals. See Mushroom, Mycorrhizae, Rust (microbiology)

Basidiomycota

Ba·sid·i·o·my·co·ta

(bă-sid'ē-ō-mī-kō'tă), 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.

Ba·sid·i·o·my·co·ta

(bă-sid'ē-ō-mī-kō'tă) 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. As found in the environment, basidiomycetes are generally plant pathogens and only rarely cause disease in humans.

Basidiomycota

(Basidiomycotina) a group of FUNGI generally with septate (see SEPTUM) HYPHAE and CLAMP CONNECTIONS. They are commonly called ‘club fungi’ because of the club-shape of the BASIDIUM that bears the sexual SPORES (basidiospores). The spores are exposed on the basidium. Members of the group include RUSTS, SMUTS, MUSHROOMS, TOADSTOOLS, PUFFBALLS and BRACKET FUNGI. Many members form associations with ROOTS - See MYCORRHIZA.

Basidiomycota

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Synonyms for Basidiomycota

noun comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium

Synonyms

Basidiomycotina
subdivision Basidiomycota
subdivision Basidiomycotina

Related Words

division
division Eumycota
Eumycota
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