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PRODUCTION HORTICULTURE
Identify plants
level:
2
credit:
5
planned review date:
February 2008
sub-field:
Horticulture
replacement information:
This unit standard replaced unit standard 821, unit standard
1799, unit standard 1800, and unit standard 1801.
purpose:
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify a
range of plants important to a named industry sector;
describe simple plant classification; and identify unfamiliar
plants.
entry information:
Open.
accreditation option:
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and industry.
moderation option:
A centrally established and directed national moderation
system has been set up by the Primary Industry Training
Organisation.
special notes:
None.
Elements and Performance Criteria
element 1
Identify a range of plants important to a named industry sector.
Range:
one of – amenity, fruit production, nursery production, vegetable production,
floriculture, plant and garden supply retailing, landscape.
performance criteria
1.1
Plant identifying features are recognised.
Range:
leaves simple or compound, leaf shape and arrangement, flower
shape and inflorescence or other reproductive structure, plant
shape and size.
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1.2
Twenty plants important to the named industry sector are recognised and
named, at least five of these to be weeds.
Range:
1.3
botanical names, accepted common names, written correctly.
Importance of these plants for the named industry sector is listed.
element 2
Describe simple plant classification.
performance criteria
2.1
The importance of plant classification in horticulture is explained.
2.2
The importance of knowing plant families, genera and species is explained in
terms of their use in horticulture.
2.3
The features important for identifying the families plants belong to are explained
for five plant families.
Range:
2.4
leaf features, flower features, inflorescence, fruit.
The identifying features that distinguish conifers, flowering plants, and ferns are
described in general terms.
element 3
Identify unfamiliar plants.
performance criteria
3.1
Four resources useful for identifying plants are described.
3.2
A simple vegetative key is used to aid plant identification.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact Primary Industry Training Organisation http://www.primaryito.ac.nz if you
wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
Please Note
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Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority or a delegated interinstitutional body before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards
or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority before
they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for providers wishing to
develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and
assessors, and special resource requirements.
This unit standard is covered by AMAP 0032
http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/site/framework/search.html.
which can
be
accessed at
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