subdivision Basidiomycota

n : comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium:

Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising the

orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts));

Hymenomycetes (mushrums; toadstools; agarics; bracket

fungi); in some classification systems considered a

division of kingdom Fungi [syn: {Basidiomycota}, {subdivision

Basidiomycota}, {Basidiomycotina}, {subdivision

Basidiomycotina}]