Since it has been established that a lichen like me is actually a symbiotic relationship between a fungi and a cyanobacteria, which means that I have an asexual phase and a sexual phase of reproduction during my life cycle.
If a lichen undergoes asexual reproduction,
For my visual fans here’s a short animation on part of my life cycle thanks to Anim8Nature:
Here’s an interesting video talking about soredias of lichens, courtesy of Bozeman Science:
Now let’s go over a lichen’s sexual reproduction phase.
Here’s a video for you…and one for you….look under your chair(maybe not), here’s another video, but this one is on the sexual and asexual reproduction cycle of a fungi: