207-108 Horticultural Flora

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202-103 Biology for Land and Food or 207-109 Landscape Design and Plant Establishment.

The recognition, landscape use and systematic analysis of landscape plants used in south-eastern Australia. The objective of this subject is to extend the participants ability to:

• recognise landscape plants used in south-eastern Australia for restricted sites;

• demonstrate an understanding of plant selection for functional and site restrictions;

• develop an understanding of plant management within designed landscapes;

• understand basic plant taxonomy and systematic theory;

• understand characters for taxonomic variation; and

• demonstrate capabilities for the use of keys with selected plant genera.

The content includes:

• recognition of 150 landscape plants used in south-eastern Australia;

• use of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature;

• the use of plants in designed landscapes;

• the selection of plants for severe/restricted edaphic and climatic conditions;

• plant systematic theory; and

• plant morphology and keys for identification in the context of four to six representative genera.

Two 45-minute practical tests (each 15%), one 1000-word assignment (10%), continuously assessed computer-aided learning (20%), plant recognition tests and short-answer submissions totalling 1000 words (10%), and one 90-minute examination (30%).

• W S Judd, C S Campbell, E A Kellogg, & P F Stevens, 1999, Plant Systematics: A phylogenetic approach. Sinauer Associates, Inc Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA.
• Burnley Staff, The Burnley Plant Directory 2002. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Australia.