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1 of 2 small phyla that, together with the Ascomycota, make up the subkingdom Dikarya (often will be referred to as the "higher fungi") within the kingdom Fungi. More specifically the Basidiomycota include these several 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. What else? Basically, Basidiomycota are filamentous fungi composed of hyphae (except for yeasts), and reproducing sexually via the formation of specialized club-shaped end cells called basidia that normally bear external meiospores (usually four). So, are there other links?