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Originally Posted by goosey
............- can't say I had ever even thought of reproductive systems of lichens.
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No, it doesn't occupy a lot of my time either!
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Amazing how the male and female spores find each other in mid air like that, must be some form of magnetics - complicated isn't it  .
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More complicated (or perhaps a lot less?) than I think you think!
I learned about fungal reproduction
many years ago so had a quick check ..... I think my vague knowledge still stands but try
Asexual reproduction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
My memory is that most fungi reproduce asexually so the spores are just, in effect, unicellular fragments of the larger organism.
However, some of them work towards a "sort of" sexual reproduction (involving "sort of" meiosis) combining the genetic material of two different cells. These are not generally described as male or female because they look exactly the same (only the genes may be different). In my youth they were simply called "+" and "-"! 1/2 a/b would be equally useful!
I leave you to discover more .....