KEANEKARAGAMAN JENIS DAN PEMANFAATAN TUMBUHAN OBAT DI KAWASAN TAMAN NASIONAL LORE LINDU (TNLL) DI DESA MATAUE KECAMATAN KULAWI KABUPATEN SIGI
ABSTRACT: Nowadays the utilization of traditional medicine by
people is used as alternative medicine for themselves. The utilization of
traditional medicine is one of local community culture that still exist
especially in Mataue village. The research
aimed to find out the variety of medicinal plants in Lore Lindu National Park
in Mataue village and its utilization. The reseach was conducted for three
months beginning on February up to the month of April 2015, in Lore Lindu
National Park in Mataue village Kulawi subdistrict Sigi district. The method of the research was survey method
by making path which to place the first swath done purposively and made in four
(4) paths, each path consisted of 5
plots with size 20 m x 20 m, the space among plots in each path was 20
meter, then the utilization, the kind of
medicinal plants were known by doing non formal interview to the field guide,
who utilized the medicinal plants, local midwives, trained traditional midwives
and literature review. The data gathered
then descibed as about the utilization and then analized for deciding the
Important Rate Index (INP) and Species Variety Index (H’).
The result of the reseach found that there were 43 species of medicinal
plants from 32 familes. The medicinal plants that dominated on tree level was
Alstonia scholaris (L.) R.Br INP 92,43%, on pole level was Syzygium sp INP
48,67%, on stem level was Rubus
fraxinifolius Poir INP 32,06%, while the species that dominated on seed and
undergrowth level was Selaginella with INP 16,11%. The variey index of
medicinal plants on tree level was 1,79 (moderate), pole 2,07 (moderate), stem
2,60 (moderate), seed and undergrowth 3,48 (high). The variety index of
medicinal plants in general categorized as moderate to high category. People in
Mataue still depending on medicinal
plants in order to cure some diseases by
utilizing plants from the forest.
Keywords: Traditional
medicine, Lore Lindu National Park,
Important Rate Index, Species
Penulis: Arnold, Herman
Harijanto, Sustri
Kode Jurnal: jpkehutanandd170156
