Relationships with other organisms

One organism eats another

• Bryophilous lichen — Lichen that eat mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.
  • Muscicolous lichens — Lichen that grow on mosses.
  • Hepaticolous lichens — Lichen that grow on liverworts.
• Lichenivore — Something that eats lichens.
  • Black-and-white snub-nosed monkey
  • Lichen moths [1] [2] [3] [4]
  • Reindeer eat lichen from the genus Cladonia.
  • Edible lichen — Lichen that humans regularly eat.

One organism grows on another

• Lichenicolous fungi — Fungi that grow on top of lichen. (some are symbiotic, some parasitic, and some mutualisitic)
  • § Lichenicolous lichens — Lichen that grow on top of lichen (and often steal the other lichen's photobiont).