Basidiomycota

Basidiomycota
Basidiomycetes from Ernst Haeckel's 1904 Kunstformen der Natur
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Subkingdom:	Dikarya
Division:	Basidiomycota Moore, R.T. 1980[1]
Subdivisions/Classes
Agaricomycotina Pucciniomycotina Ustilaginomycotina Class Incertae sedis (no subdivisions) Wallemiomycetes

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.

These are "higher fungi". They include jelly and shelf, or bracket fungi, mushrooms, puffballs, and stinkhorns; and the rusts and smuts.^[3]

1. ↑ Moore, R. T. (1980). "Taxonomic proposals for the classification of marine yeasts and other yeast-like fungi including the smuts". Botanica Marina. 23: 371.
2. ↑ Kirk P.M.; Cannon P.F. & Stalpers J.A. 2008. Dictionary of the Fungi, 10th ed. CABI.
3. ↑ Moore R.T. 1980. Taxonomic proposals for the classification of marine yeasts and other yeast-like fungi including the smuts. Botanica Marina 23: 371.