%0 Journal Article %A Schauer, S. %A Kämpfer, P. %A Wellner, S. %A Spröer, C. %A Kutschera, U. %T Methylobacterium marchantiae sp. nov., a pink-pigmented, facultatively methylotrophic bacterium isolated from the thallus of a liverwort %D 2011 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 61 %N 4 %P 870-876 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.021915-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A pink-pigmented, facultatively methylotrophic bacterium, designated strain JT1T, was isolated from a thallus of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha L. and was analysed by using a polyphasic approach. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis placed the strain in a clade with Methylobacterium adhaesivum AR27T, Methylobacterium fujisawaense DSM 5686T, Methylobacterium radiotolerans JCM 2831T and Methylobacterium jeotgali S2R03-9T, with which it showed sequence similarities of 97.8, 97.7, 97.2 and 97.4 %, respectively. However, levels of DNA–DNA relatedness between strain JT1T and these and the type strains of other closely related species were lower than 70 %. Cells of JT1T stained Gram-negative and were motile, rod-shaped and characterized by numerous fimbriae-like appendages on the outer surface of their wall (density up to 200 µm−2). Major fatty acids were C18 : 1ω7c and C16 : 0. Based on the morphological, physiological and biochemical data presented, strain JT1T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Methylobacterium, for which the name Methylobacterium marchantiae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is JT1T ( = DSM 21328T  = CCUG 56108T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.021915-0