subdivision Basidiomycota
n 1: 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},
{subdivision Basidiomycota}, {Basidiomycotina},
{subdivision Basidiomycotina}]