subdivision Basidiomycota
n : comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes
Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising
the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)
and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and
bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered
a division of kingdom Fungi [syn: Basidiomycota, Basidiomycotina,
subdivision Basidiomycotina]