Flowers of Bienertia cycloptera and Suaeda aralocaspica (Chenopodiaceae) complete the life cycle performing single-cell C photosynthesis.

Leaves and cotyledons of the terrestrial C plants, Bienertia cycloptera Bunge ex Boiss. and Suaeda aralocaspica (Bunge) Freitag & Schütze (Chenopodiaceae), accomplish C photosynthesis within individual chlorenchyma cells: each species having a unique means of intracellular spatial partitioning of biochemistry and organelles. In this study the chlorenchyma tissue in flowers and stems of these species was investigated.