Basidiomycota
Translingual
Etymology
basidium + -mycota; with basidium formed from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis, “base”) + -ίδιον (-ídion, diminutive suffix).
Proper noun
Basidiomycota
- A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Fungi – 30,000 species of fungi that produce spores from a basidium, the club fungi.
Hypernyms
- (phylum): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Fungi – kingdom; Dikarya – subkingdom
Hyponyms
- (phylum): Agaricomycotina, Pucciniomycotina, Ustilaginomycotina - subphyla
- Entorrhizomycetes, Wallemiomycetes - classes incertae sedis
- Celatogloea, Dacryomycetopsis, Neotyphula, Zanchia - genera incertae sedis
- Entorrhizomycetes, Wallemiomycetes - classes incertae sedis
Related terms
- Basidiomycetes
- Basidiomycotina
References
Basidiomycota on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Basidiomycota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Basidiomycota on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Basidiomycota at MycoBank
- Basidiomycota at World Register of Marine Species
- Basidiomycota at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Basidiomycota at Encyclopedia of Life
- Basidiomycota at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521