Bienertia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Chenopodiaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Suaedoideae
Tribus: Bienertieae
Genus: Bienertia

Species: B. cycloptera – B. kavirense – B. sinuspersici

Names in synonymy: B. kossinskyi – B. przewalskii

Name

Bienertia Bunge ex Boiss., Boiss. Fl. Orient. 4: 945. (1879)

and in Bunge, Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 6(2): 425. (1879)

Type species: Bienertia cycloptera Bunge ex Boiss.
Eponymy: named for Theophil Bienert.

References
Primary references

Boissier, P.E. 1879. Flora Orientalis sive enumeratio plantarum in Oriente a Graecia et Aegypto and Indiae fines hucusque observatarum Volumen quartum. Corolliflorae et Monochlamydeae. Fasciculus secundus. Pp. 281–1276. Genevae et Basileae: H. Georg. BHL Biblioteca Digital Reference page. : 945
Bunge, A. von 1879 (1880). Enumeratio Salsolacearum centrasiaticarum. Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaničeskago Sada (Acta Horti Petropolitani. St. Petersburg) 6(2): 403–459. BHL Reference page. : 425

Additional references

Akhani, H., Chatrenoor, T., Dehghani, M., Khoshravesh, R., Mahdavi, P. & Matinzadeh, Z. 2012. A new species of Bienertia (Chenopodiaceae) from Iranian salt deserts: a third species of the genus and discovery of a fourth terrestrial C4 plant without Kranz anatomy. Plant Biosystems 146: 550–559. DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2012.662921 Reference page.
Kapralov, M.V., Akhani, H., Voznesenskaya, E.V., Edwards, G., Franceschi, V. & Roalson, E.H. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships in the Salicornioideae / Suaedoideae / Salsoloideae s.l. (Chenopodiaceae) clade and a clarification of the phylogenetic position of Bienertia and Alexandra using multiple DNA sequence datasets. Systematic Botany 31(3): 571–585. DOI: 10.1043/06-01.1 Full text PDF from ResearchGate Reference page.

Links

Hassler, M. 2019. Bienertia. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 May 14. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Bienertia. Published online. Accessed: May 14 2019.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Bienertia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 May 14. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2019. Bienertia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 May 14.

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.

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

Bienertia cycloptera
Bienertia kavirense
Bienertia sinuspersici

References

"Bienertia Bunge ex Boiss". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
Kapralov, M.V.; Akhani, H.; Voznesenskaya, E.V.; Edwards, G.; Franceschi, V.; Roalson, E.H. (2006). "Phylogenetic Relationships in the Salicornioideae / Suaedoideae / Salsoloideae s.l. (Chenopodiaceae) clade and a clarification of the phylogenetic position of Bienertia and Alexandra using multiple DNA sequence datasets". Systematic Botany. 31 (3): 571–585. doi:10.1600/036364406778388674. ISSN 0363-6445.
Sage, R.F. (2016). "A portrait of the C4 photosynthetic family on the 50th anniversary of its discovery: species number, evolutionary lineages, and Hall of Fame". Journal of Experimental Botany. 67 (14): 4039–4056. doi:10.1093/jxb/erw156. ISSN 0022-0957. PMID 27053721. open access