About Paullinia pinnata L.
Paullinia pinnata L. is a flowering plant species belonging to the genus Paullinia, with populations native to South America and Africa. As English naturalist Henry Walter Bates documented in his work *The Naturalist on the River Amazons*, the long flexible stems of Paullinia pinnata are used to poison fish in shallow pools. A variety of lepidopteran larvae feed on this species; these larvae are of the species Morpho polyphemus, Fresna nyassae, Neptis trigonophora, Brenthia elongata, Charaxes lycurgus, Charaxes zelica, Euphaedra medon, Euphaedra harpalyce, Neptis clarei, Neptis nysiades, Neptis rogersi, and Neptis troundi.
