Translingual

Proper noun

Basidiomycota

1. 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

Related terms

• Basidiomycetes
• Basidiomycotina

References

• 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