autobasidiomycete Biol.
(ˌɔːtəʊbəˈsɪdɪəʊmaɪˈsiːt)
[G. (O. Brefeld Untersuchungen aus d. Gesammtgeb. d. Mykologie (1889) viii. 185), f. auto-1: see below.]
A fungus belonging to the Autobasidiomycetes, a division of the Basidiomycetes, including mushrooms, toadstools, and related fungi having an autobasidium.
| 1895 M. C. Cooke Introd. Study of Fungi ii. x. 115 The Basidiomycetes are arranged in two groups: (1) The Protobasidiomycetes..(2) the Autobasidiomycetes, in which the basidia are not septate, and bear a definite number of basidiospores. 1933 Ann. Reg. 1932 57 Wakayama's demonstration that the chromosome numbers in thirty-four Autobasidiomycetes are either two, four, or six. 1937 Gwynne-Vaughan & Barnes Struct. & Dev. Fungi (ed. 2) 326 The Autobasidiomycetes include between 12,000 and 13,000 species; they are cosmopolitan in distribution. |