basidiomycete

Noun

basidiomycete (plural basidiomycetes)

1. Any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota, that produces sexual spores on a basidium.
   • The result is that over all these initiatives in classification have hovered the spectres of basidiomycete, and especially ascomycete, taxonomy.1996, Brian Sutton, A Century of Mycology, page 135
   • 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...2008, Donald M. Huffman, Lois H. Tiffany, George Knaphaus, Rosanne A. Healy, Mushrooms and Other Fungi of the Midcontinental United States, page 9