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  • proper noun A taxonomic division within the kingdom Fungi — 30,000 species of fungi that produce spores from a basidium.

Etymologies

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basidium +‎ -mycota

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Examples

  • Again, another Basidiomycota that I am unable to identify.

    Fanciful Fungi Jess 2010

  • Basidiomycota also have a large amount of poisonous species, including more fanciful ones colloquially known as 'magic mushrooms'.

    Fanciful Fungi Jess 2010

  • Basidiomycota also have a large amount of poisonous species, including more fanciful ones colloquially known as 'magic mushrooms'.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Jess 2010

  • Again, another Basidiomycota that I am unable to identify.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Jess 2010

  • Mushrooms and toadstools are part of the Basidiomycota genus.

    Fanciful Fungi Jess 2010

  • Mushrooms and toadstools are part of the Basidiomycota genus.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Jess 2010

  • We find that tRNase ZL is present in all fungi we have examined, whereas tRNase ZS exists only in the fungal phyla Basidiomycota, Chytridiomycota and

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America Spore discharge in the majority of the 30,000 described species of Basidiomycota is powered by the rapid motion of a fluid droplet, called Buller's drop, over the spore surface.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • So how is discharge distance attuned to the diversity of ecological challenges and fruiting body morphology among the 30,000 species of ballistosporic Basidiomycota?

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • The Others group includes genes that are conserved in the Pezizomycotina clade, but which may have been lost or diverged in the genomes of other members of the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Takao Kasuga et al. 2009

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