Schousboea cordifoliaAlchornea cordata Alchornea cordifolia is a shrub or small tree distributed throughout tropical Africa, it can grow up to 8 metres tall.

The leaves, roots and stem bark contain terpenoids, steroid glycosides, flavonoids, tannins, saponins, carbohydrates and the imidazopyrimidine alkaloids alchorneine, alchornidine, and several guanidine alkaloids.

[2] The plant is cultivated for its medicinal purposes in the country Democratic Republic of Congo.

It supplies dye and wood and in other occasions it is widely used for food.

[3] The roots of the plant are used to treat venereal diseases, amoebic dysentery and diarrhoea.