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Basidiomycotina

A subdivision containing the most advanced fungi of the *Eumycota , which are characterized by the production of *basidia. The mycelium, which may be uninucleate or di-karyotic, is typically divided by inflated septa with a central pore (see dolipore septum). In dikaryotic mycelia, characteristic *clamp connections are seen. The Basidiomycotina contains over 12 000 species in some 900 genera and is divided into the three classes *Teliomycetes, *Hymenomycetes, and *Gasteromycetes. In some classifications these fungi are grouped in the class Basidio-mycetes, which is then divided into the subclasses Heterobasidiomycetidae, in which the basidium is deeply divided or septate   (e.g.   rusts and smuts),    and Homobasidiomycetidae, in which the basidium is a single large cell.

 
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