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nouna small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetestype of:
Definition that contains basidium
- gastroboletus a genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae; they resemble boletes but the spores are not discharged from the basidium
- promycelium the basidium of various fungi
- subdivision basidiomycotina 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
- hypobasidium special cell constituting the base of the basidium in various fungi especially of the order Tremellales
- dacrymycetaceae a family of basidiomycetous fungi belonging to the order Tremellales having a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa
- genus dacrymyces type genus of the Dacrymycetaceae: fungi with a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa
- basidiomycota 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
- tremellaceae a family of basidiomycetous fungi of the order Tremellales that have the basidium divided longitudinally
- family dacrymycetaceae a family of basidiomycetous fungi belonging to the order Tremellales having a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa
- genus gastroboletus a genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae; they resemble boletes but the spores are not discharged from the basidium