The club fungi: a phylum whose members produce spores on club-shaped structures called basidia, most visibly in the mushrooms, puffballs, bracket fungi and rusts that make up the phylum's fruiting bodies. Basidiomycota includes the majority of fungi people would recognize as mushrooms, as well as many destructive plant pathogens.
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Member Species/Taxa CountApproximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized. Taxonomic Rank Scientific Name Classification
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Source Wikidata: Cryptococcus
Source Wikidata: Malassezia
Source Wikidata: Tremella mesenterica
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1. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ174698, descriptionView the Source 2. Catalogue of Life
Wikidata: Basidiomycota
Wikidata Q174698, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Wikidata: Cryptococcus
Parent Taxon Of: Cryptococcus, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chainView the Source Wikidata: Malassezia
Parent Taxon Of: Malassezia, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chainView the Source Wikidata: Tremella mesenterica
Parent Taxon Of: Tremella mesenterica, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chainView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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