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 carbon fixation without Kranz anatomy, also found in some species of the closely related genus Suaeda.
Species Four species are accepted. Bienertia cycloptera – Turkey, Transcaucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and southern European Russia Bienertia kavirense – Iran Bienertia przewalskii – north-central China, Inner Mongolia, and Mongolia Bienertia sinuspersici – Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the Persian Gulf states
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