Meaning of basidiomycete | Babel Free

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Any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota, that produces sexual spores on a basidium.

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“The result⟳ is that over all these initiatives in classification have⟳ hovered the spectres of basidiomycete, and especially ascomycete, taxonomy.”

“The majority of macroscopic fleshy fungi are basidiomycetes. Basidiomycetes produce⟳ spores on a basidium, the basic feature that separates them from other groups of fungi. Some of the basidiomycetes forcibly discharge their spores from the basidia, which remain⟳ after spore discharge. Other basidiomycete groups release⟳ their spores by collapse of the basidia, which are not present⟳ in the mature fruiting body.”

“Among basidiomycetes there are classic examples of farming interactions in which Old World termites cultivate a monophyletic group of fungi and New World leaf-cutting ants cultivate two distinct cultivar groups (Currie et al. 2003; Munkacsi et al. 2004; Little and Currie 2008).”

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