Basidiomycotina (Noun)
Meaning
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.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The kingdom Fungi is divided into several subkingdoms, one of which is the Basidiomycotina, comprising fungi bearing the spores on a basidium.
- Basidiomycotina includes Gasteromycetes, which are fungi that have their spores enclosed within an internal cavity, such as puffballs.
- The class Basidiomycotina comprises three main fungal orders: Ustilaginales, Uredinales, and Hymenomycetes.
- In older classification systems, Basidiomycotina was considered a division within the kingdom Fungi, but it is now often classified as a subkingdom.
- The subkingdom Basidiomycotina includes Hymenomycetes, an order that comprises mushrooms, toadstools, agarics, and bracket fungi.