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Basidiomycota, the Glossary

Basidiomycota is one of two large divisions that, together with the Ascomycota, constitute the subkingdom Dikarya (often referred to as the "higher fungi") within the kingdom Fungi.^[1]

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Fungi by classification
Taxa described in 1980
Taxa named by Royall T. Moore

Aeciospore

Aeciospores are one of several different types of spores formed by rusts.

See Basidiomycota and Aeciospore

Aecium

An aecium (plural aecia) is a specialised reproductive structure found in some plant pathogenic rust fungi that produce aeciospores.

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An agaric is a type of fungus fruiting body characterized by the presence of a pileus (cap) that is clearly differentiated from the stipe (stalk), with lamellae (gills) on the underside of the pileus.

See Basidiomycota and Agaric

Agaricomycetes

The Agaricomycetes are a class of fungi in the division Basidiomycota.

See Basidiomycota and Agaricomycetes

Agaricomycotina

Agaricomycotina is one of three subdivisions of the Basidiomycota (fungi bearing spores on basidia), and represents all of the fungi which form macroscopic fruiting bodies.

See Basidiomycota and Agaricomycotina

Agaricostilbomycetes

The Agaricostilbomycetes are a class of fungi in the subdivision Pucciniomycotina of the Basidiomycota.

See Basidiomycota and Agaricostilbomycetes

Agaricus bisporus

Agaricus bisporus, commonly known as the cultivated mushroom, is a basidiomycete mushroom native to grasslands in Eurasia and North America.

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Annual Review of Microbiology

The Annual Review of Microbiology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes review articles about microbiology.

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Annual Reviews (publisher)

Annual Reviews is an independent, non-profit academic publishing company based in San Mateo, California.

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Armillaria

Armillaria is a genus of fungi that includes the A. mellea species known as honey fungi that live on trees and woody shrubs.

See Basidiomycota and Armillaria

Ascomycota

Ascomycota is a phylum of the kingdom Fungi that, together with the Basidiomycota, forms the subkingdom Dikarya. Basidiomycota and Ascomycota are fungi by classification and mycology.

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Asexual reproduction

Asexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that does not involve the fusion of gametes or change in the number of chromosomes.

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Atractiellomycetes

The Atractiellomycetes are class of fungi in the Pucciniomycotina subdivision of the Basidiomycota.

See Basidiomycota and Atractiellomycetes

Ballistics

Ballistics is the field of mechanics concerned with the launching, flight behaviour and impact effects of projectiles, especially ranged weapon munitions such as bullets, unguided bombs, rockets or the like; the science or art of designing and accelerating projectiles so as to achieve a desired performance.

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Ballistospore

A ballistospore or ballistoconidia is a spore that is discharged into the air from a living being, usually a species of fungus.

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Bartheletia

Bartheletia paradoxa is a species of dimorphic fungus and is the only member of the genus Bartheletia.

See Basidiomycota and Bartheletia

Basidiocarp

In fungi, a basidiocarp, basidiome, or basidioma is the sporocarp of a basidiomycete, the multicellular structure on which the spore-producing hymenium is borne.

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Basidiospore

A basidiospore is a reproductive spore produced by basidiomycete fungi, a grouping that includes mushrooms, shelf fungi, rusts, and smuts. Basidiomycota and basidiospore are mycology.

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Basidium

A basidium (basidia) is a microscopic spore-producing structure found on the hymenophore of reproductive bodies of basidiomycete fungi.

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BMC Genomics

BMC Genomics is an open-access scientific journal covering all areas of genomics and proteomics.

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Bolete

A bolete is a type of mushroom, or fungal fruiting body.

See Basidiomycota and Bolete

Cantharellus

Cantharellus is a genus of mushrooms, commonly known as chanterelles, a name which can also refer to the type species, Cantharellus cibarius.

See Basidiomycota and Cantharellus

Cell (biology)

The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all forms of life.

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Cell wall

A cell wall is a structural layer that surrounds some cell types, found immediately outside the cell membrane.

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Clamp connection

A clamp connection is a hook-like structure formed by growing hyphal cells of certain fungi.

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Classiculomycetes

The Classiculomycetes are a class of fungi in the Pucciniomycotina subdivision of the Basidiomycota.

See Basidiomycota and Classiculomycetes

Cleistocybe

Cleistocybe is a genus of fungi in the family Biannulariaceae.

See Basidiomycota and Cleistocybe

Collybia tuberosa

Collybia tuberosa, commonly known as the lentil shanklet or the appleseed coincap, is an inedible species of fungus in the family Tricholomataceae, and the type species of the genus Collybia.

See Basidiomycota and Collybia tuberosa

Common bunt

Common bunt, also known as hill bunt, Indian bunt, European bunt, stinking smut or covered smut, is a disease of both spring and winter wheats.

See Basidiomycota and Common bunt

Coprinopsis cinerea

Coprinopsis cinerea is a species of mushroom in the family Psathyrellaceae.

See Basidiomycota and Coprinopsis cinerea

Corn smut

Corn smut is a plant disease caused by the pathogenic fungus Mycosarcoma maydis.

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Craterellus

Craterellus is a genus of generally edible fungi similar to the closely related chanterelles, with some new species recently moved from the latter to the former.

See Basidiomycota and Craterellus

Cryptococcus

Cryptococcus is a genus of fungi in the family Cryptococcaceae that includes both yeasts and filamentous species.

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Cryptococcus gattii

Cryptococcus gattii, formerly known as Cryptococcus neoformans var.

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Cryptococcus neoformans

Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated yeast belonging to the class Tremellomycetes and an obligate aerobe that can live in both plants and animals.

See Basidiomycota and Cryptococcus neoformans

Cryptomycocolacomycetes

The Cryptomycocolacomycetes are a class of fungi in the Pucciniomycotina subdivision of the Basidiomycota.

See Basidiomycota and Cryptomycocolacomycetes

Cystobasidiomycetes

The Cystobasidiomycetes are a class of fungi in the subdivision Pucciniomycotina of the Basidiomycota.

See Basidiomycota and Cystobasidiomycetes

Dacrymycetales

The Dacrymycetes are a class of fungi in the Basidiomycota.

See Basidiomycota and Dacrymycetales

Dendrocollybia

Dendrocollybia is a fungal genus in the family Tricholomataceae of the order Agaricales.

See Basidiomycota and Dendrocollybia

Diaspore

Diasporealso called diasporite, empholite, kayserite, or tanatariteis an aluminium hydroxide oxide mineral, α-AlO(OH), crystallizing in the orthorhombic system and isomorphous with goethite.

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Diaspore (botany)

In botany, a diaspore is a plant dispersal unit consisting of a seed or spore plus any additional tissues that assist dispersal.

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Dikarya

Dikarya is a subkingdom of Fungi that includes the divisions Ascomycota and Basidiomycota, both of which in general produce dikaryons, may be filamentous or unicellular, but are always without flagella.

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Dikaryon

The dikaryon is a nuclear feature that is unique to certain fungi. Basidiomycota and dikaryon are mycology.

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Disease vector

In epidemiology, a disease vector is any living agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen such as a parasite or microbe, to another living organism.

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DNA repair

DNA repair is a collection of processes by which a cell identifies and corrects damage to the DNA molecules that encode its genome.

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Entorrhizomycetes

Entorrhizomycetes is the sole class in the phylum Entorrhizomycota, within the Fungi subkingdom Dikarya along with Basidiomycota and Ascomycota.

See Basidiomycota and Entorrhizomycetes

Eriocybe

Eriocybe is a fungal genus in the family Agaricaceae.

See Basidiomycota and Eriocybe

Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist.

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Exobasidiales

The Exobasidiales are an order of fungi in the class Exobasidiomycetes.

See Basidiomycota and Exobasidiales

Exobasidiomycetes

The Exobasidiomycetes are a class of fungi sometimes associated with the abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues known as galls.

See Basidiomycota and Exobasidiomycetes

Forest pathology

Forest pathology is the research of both biotic and abiotic maladies affecting the health of a forest ecosystem, primarily fungal pathogens and their insect vectors.

See Basidiomycota and Forest pathology

Fungal Biology

Fungal Biology is a scientific journal that publishes peer-reviewed papers on all aspects of basic and applied research of the fungi, including lichens, yeasts, oomycetes, and slime moulds.

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Fungal Genetics and Biology

Fungal Genetics and Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1977 as Experimental Mycology, obtaining its current title in 1996.

See Basidiomycota and Fungal Genetics and Biology

Fungus

A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. Basidiomycota and fungus are taxa described in 1980 and taxa named by Royall T. Moore.

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Gasteroid fungi

The gasteroid fungi are a group of fungi in the Basidiomycota.

See Basidiomycota and Gasteroid fungi

Geastrales

Geastrales is an order of gasterocarpic basidiomycetes (fungi) that are related to Cantharellales.

See Basidiomycota and Geastrales

Habit (biology)

Habit, equivalent to habitus in some applications in biology, refers variously to aspects of behaviour or structure, as follows.

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Heterobasidiomycetes

Heterobasidiomycetes, including jelly fungi, smuts and rusts, are basidiomycetes with septate basidia.

See Basidiomycota and Heterobasidiomycetes

Heteroecious

A heteroecious parasite is one that requires at least two hosts.

See Basidiomycota and Heteroecious

Hohenbuehelia

Hohenbuehelia is a pleurotoid genus of agaric fungi characterized by gelatinous-sheathed bowling-pin-shaped cystidia, on conidia, basidiospore germ tubes, and mycelium that adhere to and capture nematodes.

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Hymenium

The hymenium is the tissue layer on the hymenophore of a fungal fruiting body where the cells develop into basidia or asci, which produce spores.

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Hymenomycete

Hymenomycetes was formerly the largest taxonomic group of fungi within the division Basidiomycota, but the term is no longer taxonomically relevant.

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Hypha

A hypha (hyphae) is a long, branching, filamentous structure of a fungus, oomycete, or actinobacterium.

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Incertae sedis

of uncertain placement or problematica is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.

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Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Infection, Genetics and Evolution, Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 2001.

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Insect

Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.

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Jelly fungus

Jelly fungi are a paraphyletic group of several heterobasidiomycete fungal orders from different classes of the subphylum Agaricomycotina: Tremellales, Dacrymycetales, Auriculariales and Sebacinales.

See Basidiomycota and Jelly fungus

Karyogamy

Karyogamy is the final step in the process of fusing together two haploid eukaryotic cells, and refers specifically to the fusion of the two nuclei.

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Kunstformen der Natur

Kunstformen der Natur (known in English as Art Forms in Nature) is a book of lithographic and halftone prints by German biologist Ernst Haeckel.

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List of Basidiomycota families

This is a list of families in the phylum Basidiomycota of kingdom Fungi.

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Malassezia

Malassezia is a genus of fungi (specifically, a yeast).

See Basidiomycota and Malassezia

Mating in fungi

Fungi are a diverse group of organisms that employ a huge variety of reproductive strategies, ranging from fully asexual to almost exclusively sexual species. Basidiomycota and Mating in fungi are mycology.

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Meiosis

Meiosis ((since it is a reductional division) is a special type of cell division of germ cells in sexually-reproducing organisms that produces the gametes, the sperm or egg cells. It involves two rounds of division that ultimately result in four cells, each with only one copy of each chromosome (haploid).

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Microbotryomycetes

The Microbotryomycetes are a class of fungi in the subdivision Pucciniomycotina of the Basidiomycota.

See Basidiomycota and Microbotryomycetes

Mitosis

Mitosis is a part of the cell cycle in which replicated chromosomes are separated into two new nuclei.

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Mixiomycetes

The Mixiomycetes are a class of fungi in the Pucciniomycotina subdivision of the Basidiomycota.

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Moniliella

Moniliella is a genus of fungi in the subdivision Ustilaginomycotina.

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Monokaryon

A monokaryon is a fungal mycelium or hypha in which each cell contains a single nucleus. Basidiomycota and monokaryon are mycology.

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Mushroom

A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source.

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Mycelial cord

Mycelial cords are linear aggregations of parallel-oriented hyphae.

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Mycelium

Mycelium (mycelia) is a root-like structure of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching, thread-like hyphae.

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Mycena citricolor

Mycena citricolor is a species of mushroom-forming fungus in the family Mycenaceae.

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Mycology

Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their taxonomy, genetics, biochemical properties, and use by humans.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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Nematoctonus

Nematoctonus (the name of which means 'nematode murderer') was a genus of fungi in the Pleurotaceae family, which is now considered a synonym of Hohenbuehelia.

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Nematode

The nematodes (or; Νηματώδη; Nematoda), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda.

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Nucleic acid sequence

A nucleic acid sequence is a succession of bases within the nucleotides forming alleles within a DNA (using GACT) or RNA (GACU) molecule.

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Phallaceae

Phallaceae is a family of fungi, commonly known as stinkhorns, within the order Phallales.

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.

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Phylum

In biology, a phylum (phyla) is a level of classification or taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.

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Physalacriaceae

The Physalacriaceae are a family of fungi in the order Agaricales.

See Basidiomycota and Physalacriaceae

Plasmogamy

Plasmogamy is a stage in the sexual reproduction of fungi, in which the protoplasm of two parent cells (usually from the mycelia) fuse without the fusion of nuclei, effectively bringing two haploid nuclei close together in the same cell. Basidiomycota and Plasmogamy are mycology.

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Ploidy

Ploidy is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes.

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PLOS Genetics

PLOS Genetics is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal established in 2005 and published by the Public Library of Science.

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Polymorphism (biology)

In biology, polymorphism is the occurrence of two or more clearly different morphs or forms, also referred to as alternative phenotypes, in the population of a species.

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Polypore

Polypores are a group of fungi that form large fruiting bodies with pores or tubes on the underside (see Delimitation for exceptions).

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Propagule

In biology, a propagule is any material that functions in propagating an organism to the next stage in its life cycle, such as by dispersal.

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Pucciniomycetes

Pucciniomycetes (formerly known as Urediniomycetidae) is a diverse class of fungi in the subphylum Pucciniomycotina of phylum Basidiomycota.

See Basidiomycota and Pucciniomycetes

Pucciniomycotina

Pucciniomycotina is a subdivision of fungus within the division Basidiomycota.

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Puffball

Puffballs are a type of fungus featuring a ball-shaped fruit body that (when mature) bursts on contact or impact, releasing a cloud of dust-like spores into the surrounding area.

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Pycnidium

A pycnidium (plural pycnidia) is an asexual fruiting body produced by mitosporic fungi, for instance in the order Sphaeropsidales (Deuteromycota, Coelomycetes) or order Pleosporales (Ascomycota, Dothideomycetes). Basidiomycota and pycnidium are mycology.

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Reactive oxygen species

In chemistry and biology, reactive oxygen species (ROS) are highly reactive chemicals formed from diatomic oxygen, water, and hydrogen peroxide.

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Roman numerals

Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages.

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Royall T. Moore

Royall Tyler Moore (October 11, 1930 – August 17, 2014) was an American-born mycologist and mycology professor.

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Rust (fungus)

Rusts are fungal plant pathogens of the order Pucciniales (previously known as Uredinales) causing plant fungal diseases.

See Basidiomycota and Rust (fungus)

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer's yeast or baker's yeast) is a species of yeast (single-celled fungal microorganisms).

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Schizophyllum commune

Schizophyllum commune is a species of fungus in the genus Schizophyllum.

See Basidiomycota and Schizophyllum commune

Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Schizosaccharomyces pombe, also called "fission yeast", is a species of yeast used in traditional brewing and as a model organism in molecular and cell biology.

See Basidiomycota and Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Scleroderma (fungus)

Scleroderma is a genus of fungi, commonly known as earth balls, now known to belong to the Boletales order, in suborder Sclerodermatineae.

See Basidiomycota and Scleroderma (fungus)

Sclerotium

A sclerotium (sclerotia, is a compact mass of hardened fungal mycelium containing food reserves. One role of sclerotia is to survive environmental extremes. In some higher fungi such as ergot, sclerotia become detached and remain dormant until favorable growth conditions return. Sclerotia initially were mistaken for individual organisms and described as separate species until Louis René Tulasne proved in 1853 that sclerotia are only a stage in the life cycle of some fungi.

See Basidiomycota and Sclerotium

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basidiomycota

Also known as Basidiomycete, Basidiomycetes, Basidomycete, Basidomycetes, Basidomycetous, Basidomycota.

, Forest pathology, Fungal Biology, Fungal Genetics and Biology, Fungus, Gasteroid fungi, Geastrales, Habit (biology), Heterobasidiomycetes, Heteroecious, Hohenbuehelia, Hymenium, Hymenomycete, Hypha, Incertae sedis, Infection, Genetics and Evolution, Insect, Jelly fungus, Karyogamy, Kunstformen der Natur, List of Basidiomycota families, Malassezia, Mating in fungi, Meiosis, Microbotryomycetes, Mitosis, Mixiomycetes, Moniliella, Monokaryon, Mushroom, Mycelial cord, Mycelium, Mycena citricolor, Mycology, Nature (journal), Nematoctonus, Nematode, Nucleic acid sequence, Phallaceae, Phylogenetics, Phylum, Physalacriaceae, Plasmogamy, Ploidy, PLOS Genetics, Polymorphism (biology), Polypore, Propagule, Pucciniomycetes, Pucciniomycotina, Puffball, Pycnidium, Reactive oxygen species, Roman numerals, Royall T. Moore, Rust (fungus), Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schizophyllum commune, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Scleroderma (fungus), Sclerotium, Septobasidium, Septum, Sistotrema, Smut (fungus), Sperm, Spiculogloeomycetes, Spore, Sporobolomyces, Sporocarp (fungus), Stem rust, Sterigma, Teleomorph, anamorph and holomorph, Teliospore, Tilletia caries, Tremellomycetes, Tritirachiomycetes, Urediniospore, Ustilaginomycetes, Ustilaginomycotina, Wallemiomycetes, Xerula, Yeast, Zygogloea.

Basidiomycota, the Glossary

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See also

Fungi by classification

Taxa described in 1980

Taxa named by Royall T. Moore

References