BASIDIOMYCOTA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Basidiomycota mean?
• BASIDIOMYCOTA (noun)
The noun BASIDIOMYCOTA has 1 sense:
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
Familiarity information: BASIDIOMYCOTA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BASIDIOMYCOTA (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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Basidiomycota; Basidiomycotina; subdivision Basidiomycota; subdivision Basidiomycotina
Hypernyms ("Basidiomycota" is a kind of...):
division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)
Meronyms (members of "Basidiomycota"):
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)
Holonyms ("Basidiomycota" is a member of...):
division Eumycota; Eumycota (true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi))
