Basidiomycota sunt una e duabus magnis divisionibus vel phylis quae, una cum Ascomycotis, subregnumDikaryorum (quae saepe altiores fungi appellantur) intra regnumFungorum constituunt. Inter ea sunt greges hominibus bene noti: basidiomycetes; generaCalvatia,Calbovista, et Lycoperdon (olim gasteromycetes una appellata); phallaceae; polypora; agaricomycotina; boletales; genus Cantharellusi; geastraceae; ustilaginomycetes; Tilletia tritici (syn. Tilletia caries) et Tilletia laevis, genera quae triticum laedunt; pucciniales; sporobolomyces, et genus Cryptococcus, pathogenum hominum.
Basidiomycota sunt fungi filamentosi, qui plerumque in hyphis consistunt, et se basidiis, cellulis claviformibus, sexualiterpropagant, quibus plerumque sunt quattuor meiosporae externae. Quae sporae praecipuae basidiosporae appellantur.[2] Nonnulla autem Basidiomycota se necessarie asexualiter propagant.
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