(1) Rusts Parasitic basidiomycete fungi of the order Uredinales.

(2) Smuts Plant diseases caused by basidiomycete fungi of the order Ustilaginales.

(3) Club - shaped hyphae in the hymenial layer of certain basidiomycete fungi are also termed paraphyses.

(4) Sterigma ( pl . sterigmata ) A fingerlike projection upon which spores are formed in most basidiomycete fungi.

(5) There are more than 20 mating type genes have been cloned from Basidiomycete. Different features were discovered in A and B loci.

(6) Hymenium (pl. hymenia) A layer of the fruiting body of certain ascomycete and basidiomycete fungi in which the asci or basidia are borne.

(7) The various fungi may have arisen independently from prokaryotes since some evidence suggests that ascomycetes and basidiomycete did not evolve from known lower forms.

(8) Usually the fungus is an ascomycete but occasionally it is a basidiomycete.