title: Paullinia paullinioides
text: # Paullinia paullinioides
  
  Paullinia paullinioides is a flowering plant species in the genus of Paullinia found in South America. It was first described in 1895, by Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer.
  
  ## Description
  
  Paullinia paullinioides is a tropical liana. It has trifoliolate leaves with elliptic to ovate leaflets and fruit with spines 1.2–1.4 cm (1⁄3–2⁄3 in) long.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  Paullinia paullinioides is found in the Amazon Basin in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. It has also been observed in Venezuela.
  
  ## Ecology
  
  The species is host to the Muscodor vitigenus fungus that produces nearly pure naphthalene which acts as an insect repellent.
  
  