
Basidiomycete Fungi
Basidiomycota
Basidiomycota (/bəˌsɪdi.oʊmaɪˈkoʊtə/) is one of two large divisions that, together with the Ascomycota, constitute the subkingdom Dikarya (often referred to as the "higher fungi") within the kingdom Fungi.
8 branches of this phylum, most-observed first

Higher Basidiomycetes
subphylumAgaricomycotina

Pucciniomycotina
subphylumPucciniomycotina

Ustilaginomycotina
subphylumUstilaginomycotina

Wallemiomycotina
subphylumWallemiomycotina

Stachycoremium
genusStachycoremium
Zygodesmus
genusZygodesmus
Ditangifibula
genusDitangifibula
Tectobasidium
genusTectobasidium
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47169.