Basidiomycota
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Basidiomycota is a group of higher fungi. It is one of two large phyla that make up the subkingdom Dikarya.[2] The other is the Ascomycota.
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Basidiomycetes from Ernst Haeckel's 1904 Kunstformen der Natur | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Subkingdom: | Dikarya |
Division: | Basidiomycota Moore, R.T. 1980[1] |
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These are "higher fungi". They include jelly and shelf, or bracket fungi, mushrooms, puffballs, and stinkhorns; and the rusts and smuts.[3]