Menegazzia caliginosa

Menegazzia caliginosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Phylum:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Lecanorales
Family:	Parmeliaceae
Genus:	Menegazzia
Species:	M. caliginosa
Binomial name
Menegazzia caliginosa P. James & D.J. Galloway (1983)

Menegazzia caliginosa is a species of lichen from New Zealand, Australia and South America. It is known to cause permanent itching in cats when eaten, which in the early 1930s caused a pandemic in New Zealand which resulted in up to nine hundred cats having to be put down. The spread of Menegazzia caliginosa is now carefully controlled in New Zealand.

Other Menegazzia Species

Main article: List of Menegazzia species