Name: Okibacterium endophyticum Wang et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: en.do.phy’ti.cum. Gr. pref. endo-, within; Gr. neut. n. phyton, plant; L. neut. adj. suff. -icum, adjectival suffix used with the sense of belonging to; N.L. neut. adj. endophyticum, within plant, endophytic, pertaining to the original isolation from plant tissues

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 28749; EG1 650022; EGI 650022; JCM 30086; KCTC 29492

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: KM114213 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Wang HF, Zhang YG, Li L, Liu WH, Hozzein WN, Chen JY, Guo JW, Zhang YM, Li WJ. Okibacterium endophyticum sp. nov., a novel endophytic actinobacterium isolated from roots of Salsola affinis C. A. Mey. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 107:835-843.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 165. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2777-2783.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Okibacterium Evtushenko et al. 2002

Assigned by: Wang HF, Zhang YG, Li L, Liu WH, Hozzein WN, Chen JY, Guo JW, Zhang YM, Li WJ. Okibacterium endophyticum sp. nov., a novel endophytic actinobacterium isolated from roots of Salsola affinis C. A. Mey. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 107:835-843.

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