Assertion: lichen | /r/HasProperty | a combination of fungi
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text: Although lichens had been recognized as organisms for quite some time, it was not until 1867, when Swiss botanist Simon Schwendener proposed his dual theory of lichens, that lichens are a combination of fungi with algae or cyanobacteria, whereby the true nature of the lichen association began to emerge.
text: A lichen is a combination of fungus and/or algae and/or cyanobacteria that has a very different form (morphology), physiology, and biochemistry than any of the constituent species growing separately.
text: In non-technical articles (See here and here) it would appear that Toby Spribille et al have found that lichens are a combination of two fungi with an alga, or a fungus, a yeast and an alga, which runs counter to the accepted structure of a lichen.