Muscodor vitigenus

Muscodor vitigenus is an endophytic fungus which colonizes Paullinia paullinioides, a liana of the Peruvian Amazon rainforests.

[1] It has the unusual property of, under certain circumstances, producing near-pure naphthalene, an insect repellent.

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