Basidiomycota—sexual spores borne externally on a club-shaped structure called a basidium. Usually no asexual spores

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This phylum includes the familiar mushrooms, puffballs, and shelf fungi, along with the less familiar rusts and smuts. The basidia usually line up next to one another and form a hymenium, as shown in the example above.