Bienertia
Genus of plants in the amaranth family
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Bienertia is a flowering plant genus that currently is classified in the family Amaranthaceae[1] s.l. (including the family Chenopodiaceae). For long time, the genus was considered to consist only of one species, Bienertia cycloptera, but in 2005 and 2012, two new species have been separated.
| Bienertia | |
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| Bienertia sinuspersici | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Amaranthaceae |
| Subfamily: | Suaedoideae |
| Genus: | Bienertia Bunge ex Boiss. (1879) |
| Species | |
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3 species, see text | |
Species of this genus have acquired an unusual, single-cell type of C4 carbon fixation without Kranz anatomy, also found in some species of the closely related genus Suaeda.[2][3]
Species
Four species are accepted.[1]
- Bienertia cycloptera Bunge – Turkey, Transcaucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and southern European Russia
- Bienertia kavirense Akhani – Iran
- Bienertia przewalskii (Bunge) G.L.Chu – north-central China, Inner Mongolia, and Mongolia
- Bienertia sinuspersici Akhani – Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the Persian Gulf states
