#class_Basidiomycetes__Basidiomycetes  large class of higher fungi coextensive with subdivision Basidiomycota
  supertype:  class__clas  (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
  member:  subclass_Homobasidiomycetes  subclass_Heterobasidiomycetes  basidiomycete  order_Tremellales  order_Auriculariales  order_Uredinales
  member of:  subdivision_Basidiomycota__Basidiomycota__Basidiomycotina__subdivision_Basidiomycotina  comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi
     member of:  division_Eumycota__Eumycota  true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi)
        member of:  kingdom_Fungi__Fungi__fungus_kingdom  the taxonomic kingdom of lower plants

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