Abstract:
The people of Kandangan Baru Village have traditional wisdom in utilizing plants. The plants are used as medicine or economic materials. One of them is Claoxylon indicum in the Bukit Tamiang Forest, Tanah Laut Regency which can be used as a value of local wisdom for the local community. The purpose of this study was to describe the validity of the ethnobotany scientific work of Indian geranium as supporting material for ethnobotany. This study uses a development research method with the Educational Design Research (EDR) model and formative evaluation of the Tessmer exam. Teaching materials are in the form of a Popular Scientific Book entitled The Ethnobotany Study of Claoxylon indicum Plants in the Bukit Tamiang Forest Area in the expert test by two validators with a score of 94.4% as well as the practicality of the content for the individual test (one to one) by 3 biology education students of FKIP ULM Banjarmasin who had passed the ethnobotany course had very good results with a score of 3.7.
