Name: Pararhizobium herbae (Ren et al. 2011) Mousavi et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Rhizobium herbae Ren et al. 2011

Etymology: her’bae. L. gen. fem. n. herbae, of a herb, because this bacterium was originally isolated from root nodules of herb legumes

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CCBAU 83011; DSM 26427; HAMBI 3117; LMG 25718

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: GU565534 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Mousavi SA, Willems A, Nesme X, de Lajudie P, Lindstrom K. Revised phylogeny of Rhizobiaceae: proposal of the delineation of Pararhizobium gen. nov., and 13 new species combinations. Syst Appl Microbiol 2015; 38:84-90.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 172. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4299-4305.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Rhizobium herbae Ren et al. 2011	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Pararhizobium Mousavi et al. 2016

Assigned by: Mousavi SA, Willems A, Nesme X, de Lajudie P, Lindstrom K. Revised phylogeny of Rhizobiaceae: proposal of the delineation of Pararhizobium gen. nov., and 13 new species combinations. Syst Appl Microbiol 2015; 38:84-90.

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Record number: 794715