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Demonstrate knowledge of turf botany
Level
2
Credits
5
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: describe turf plant and
grass reproduction and identification, turf growth and development, and the
advantages and disadvantages of cultivars of turf species for turf use; and
identify common turf plants.
Subfield
Sports Turf
Domain
Sports Turf Management
Status
Registered
Status date
17 October 2008
Date version published
17 October 2008
Planned review date
31 December 2013
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Primary Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0037
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
Assessment
This unit standard can be assessed against in either a sports turf or amenity turf context.
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Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Describe turf plant and grass reproduction and identification, turf growth and development,
and the advantages and disadvantages of cultivars of turf species for sports turf use.
Performance criteria
1.1
Turf plants are distinguished in terms of their reproductive characteristics.
Range
1.2
Turf grasses are described in terms of their photosynthetic pathway.
Range
1.3
must include – cool season grasses, warm season grasses.
The effect of the environment and management factors is described in terms of
turf plant growth and development.
Range
1.4
plants that do not reproduce by seed, gymnosperms,
angiosperms, monocotyledons, dicotyledons.
environment and management factors – light intensity and
composition, day length, temperature, mowing, nutrition;
plant growth and development includes but is not limited to –
tillering, leaf extension, flowering, shoot and leaf death, root
development.
Cultivars of turf species are described in terms of their advantages and
disadvantages for sports turf use.
Range
must include a minimum of two cultivars each for three of the
following sports turf species – browntop, creeping bentgrass,
Chewing’s fescue, red fescue, hard fescue, tall fescue, Kentucky
bluegrass, Poa annua, perennial ryegrass, cynodon species,
Kikuyu, buffalo grass, carpet grass, seashore paspalum.
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Element 2
Identify common turf plants.
Range
must include a minimum of ten turf plants of which a minimum of six are
selected from the following examples – browntop, creeping bentgrass,
Chewing’s fescue, red fescue, hard fescue, tall fescue, Kentucky bluegrass,
Poa annua, perennial ryegrass, cynodon species, Kikuyu, buffalo grass, carpet
grass, Leptinella maniototo, Leptinella dioica, starweed, seashore paspalum.
Performance criteria
2.1
Turf plants are identified in terms of their features.
Range
features may include – crown, inflorescence, flowering culm,
spike/spikelet, petiole, node, ligule, auricle, collar, leaf blade, leaf
sheath, stolon, tiller, rhizome, primary and secondary roots.
2.2
Turf plants are identified in terms of their vegetative and/or floral characteristics.
2.3
Turf plant names are identified in accordance with the International Code of
Botanical Nomenclature and the International Code of Nomenclature for
Cultivated Plants.
Range
at least three of – family name, common name, botanical name,
cultivar, hybrids, synonyms.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated
authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against
unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA 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 organisations
wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for
tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Primary Industry Training Organisation standards@primaryito.ac.nz if
you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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