| Generic short diagnoses: Characteristic purple, felty, plant parasitic resupinate with helicoid, transversely septate basidia; hyphae wide and unclamped. Another state in the lifecycle parasitize rust fungi. |
Species example: |
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 Helicobasidium purpureum |
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