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Penetapan Ubalan sebagai hutan wisata tidak didukung dengan lengkapnya data vegetasi, sehingga penetapan strategi konservasi in situ belum dapat dilakukan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap jenis – jenis tanaman berkasiat obat dan sebarannya yang tumbuh di Ubalan Kediri untuk memberikan informasi ilmiah tentang vegetasi Ubalan. Penelitian dilakukan mulai Januari – Juli 2013 dengan metode jelajah. Sampel dikoleksi untuk diidentifikasi serta validasi lebih lanjut. Diperoleh 30 spesies yang terdiri dari suku Lauraceae (Persea americana), Magnoliaceae (Michelia champaca), Arecaceaae (Cocos nucifera, Arecha catechu, Arenga pinnata, Saalaca zalacca, Calamus unifarius), Moraceae (Ficus septica), Fabaceae (Erythrina fusa), Menispermaceae (Cyclea barbata), Mimosaceae (Parkia timoriana), Bombacaseae (Durio zibethius), Araceae (Xanthosoma sagittifolium, Colocasia gigantea), Zingiberaceae (Zingiber officinale, Alpina galanga), Caricaceae (Carica papaya), Euphorbiaceae (Manihot esculenta, Aleurites moluccana, Phillanthus niruri), Flacourticeae (Pangium edule), Anacardiaceae (Dracontomelon puberutum, Mangifera indica), Rubaiceae (Morinda citrifolia), Pandaanaceae (Pandanus amaryllifolius), Musaceae (Musa balbisiana), Apocynaceae (Alstonia scolaris), Annonaceae (Annona muricata), Asteraceae (Elephantopus scaber, Ageratum conyzoides).

Today’s, higher population cause the human necessary not only at basic food but also at medical compounds has increased too (quality and quantity). The bad impact of modern therapy cause the society should look for the alternative therapy specifically using medical compounds from tropical plants as well as can be found in their environment. Providing medical compounds by tropical plant by conventional methods were inefficient, such us the limitation of reproduction ability plant (by vegetative or generative), were dependent to host plant (medical plant parasite), most of medical plants belonging to rare plant, and the fluctuation of concentration medical compounds will be crucial problem to fulfill their necessary. Based on previous study showed that the improvement of plant tissue culture technique included of the invention and growth plant substances application were able to solve the providing callus as source of medical compounds. However, the higher rate of variation genetic callus caused the variation of medical compounds profile. Biology molecular technology such us flow cytometric and RAPD have great potential to monitor of callus profile, for examples DNA profile or stage of callus cells. Finally, the providing of medical compounds can be filled not only by quality and quantity.