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Basidiomycota

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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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Disputed
Member Species/Taxa Count
32,000 1
Approximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.
Taxonomic Rank
Phylum / Division 1
Scientific Name
Basidiomycota 1
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Fungi, Taxa
Sources
1. Catalogue of Life
Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of LifeView the Source
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