അർത്ഥം : Comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium. Includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi). In some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi.