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- proper noun A taxonomic
class within thephylum Basidiomycota — themushrooms that producespores from abasidium .
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Examples
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There is one great group of fungi called Basidiomycetes, so named from having their stalked spores produced on basidia.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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Within the group of fungi called the Basidiomycetes (because spores are formed on structures called basidia) are two groups of fungi of great economic importance: the rusts and smuts.
Huitlacoche 1919
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The so-called higher fungi, Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes, also have low diversity.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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Botryodiplodia theobromae and some Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes are causative agents.
Chapter 11 1987
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Of the lower _Basidiomycetes_, the rusts (_Uredineæ_) offer common and easily procurable forms for study.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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Probably to be associated with the lower _Basidiomycetes_ are the large fungi of which _Tremella_ (Fig. 51, _A_) is an example.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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The Basidia-bearing fungi, or Basidiomycetes, are divided into three classes, as has been already stated.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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The most generally known of these lower _Basidiomycetes_ are the so-called rusts.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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This group of Basidiomycetes is divided into (1) Stomach fungi
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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_Basidiomycetes_; Rusts; _Coprinus_; Classification.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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