Noun: 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
- Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycotina
Type of: division
Part of: division Eumycota, Eumycota
Encyclopedia: Basidiomycotina