Basidiomycota
Basidiomycetes from Ernst Haeckel's 1904 Kunstformen der Natur
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Subkingdom:	Dikarya
Division:	Basidiomycota Moore, R.T. 1980
Subdivisions/Classes
Agaricomycotina Pucciniomycotina Ustilaginomycotina Class Incertae sedis (no subdivisions) Wallemiomycetes

Basidiomycota is a group of higher fungi. It is one of two large phyla that make up the subkingdom Dikarya. The other is the Ascomycota.

These are "higher fungi". They include jelly and shelf, or bracket fungi, mushrooms, puffballs, and stinkhorns; and the rusts and smuts.