%0 Journal Article %T Quilombolas e recursos florestais medicinais no sul da Bahia, Brasil %A Mota %A Renata dos Santos %A Dias %A Henrique Machado %J Intera£¿£¿es (Campo Grande) %D 2012 %I Universidade Cat¨®lica Dom Bosco %R 10.1590/S1518-70122012000200002 %X we interpreted the traditional knowledge of a quilombola group about the use of plant species for therapeutic purposes (medicinal). were adopted semi-structured interviews and discourse analysis to its interpretation. we identified 57 species in the herbarium for medicinal purposes. it is concluded that knowledge is essential for maintenance of socio-cultural vulnerable community and as a way of generating jobs and income the light of local sustainable development %K ethnobotanical %K traditional group %K interdisciplinary. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1518-70122012000200002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en