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Basidiomycota

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Basidiomycota, the club fungi, form haploid basidiospores on a club-shaped basidium, and include most mushrooms, shelf fungi, smuts, and rusts.

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A mushroom's gills are compacted hyphae bearing basidia on their surface, the structure the whole mushroom exists mainly to produce.

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Most edible mushrooms are Basidiomycota, but so are several of the deadliest poisonous species— phylum membership predicts neither edibility nor safety.