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Bienertia is a small genus of annual or perennial herbs in the amaranth and beet family, named for botanist Theophil Bienert; the commonly grown member is Bienertia cycloptera, a low, fleshy, desert-adapted plant that uses a rare single-cell C4 photosynthesis. Grow it as a warm, sunny, lightly watered desert-style plant.
Bienertia is a flowering plant genus that currently is classified in the family Amaranthaceae s.l. (including the family Chenopodiaceae). The genus is named after botanist Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert. 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.
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.
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