Alchornea cordifolia
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A. cordifolia
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Alchornea cordifolia |
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Schousboea cordifolia |
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Alchornea cordifolia is a shrub or small tree distributed throughout tropical Africa.
The plant is used in traditional African medicine.[citation needed] The leaves, roots and stem bark contain terpenoids, steroid glycosides, flavonoids, tannins, saponins, carbohydrates and the imidazopyrimidine alkaloids alchorneine, alchornidine, and several guanidine alkaloids. The leaves also contain a range of hydroxybenzoic acids: gallic acid and its ethyl ester, gentisic acid, anthranilic acid, protocatechuic acid, and ellagic acid (alizarine yellow). A C20 homolog of vernolic acid named alchornoic acid can be found in the seed oil.[1]
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