Dikarya Basidiomycota *Basidiomycota* is one of two large phyla that, together with the *Ascomycota*, constitute the subkingdom *Dikarya* (often referred to as the "higher fungi") within the kingdom Fungi. More specifically the *Basidiomycota* include these groups: mushrooms, puffballs, stinkhorns, bracket fungi, other polypores, jelly fungi, boletes, chanterelles, earth stars, smuts, bunts, rusts, mirror yeasts, and the human pathogenic yeast *Cryptococcus*. basidiomycetes WIKIPEDIA:Basidiomycota basidiomycete fungi basidiomycotina basidios club fungi teliomycetes ustomycetes