RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Niu, Lili A1 Xiong, Mengjie A1 Zhang, Juan A1 Xiang, Yangquan A1 Song, Lei A1 Hua, Ziyi A1 Li, WenyingYR 2018 T1 Bacillus camelliae sp. nov., isolated from Pu’er tea JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 68 IS 2 SP 564 OP 569 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002542 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A novel aerobic, Gram-stain-positive, sporogenous, rod-shaped bacterial strain, 7578-1T, was isolated from ripened Pu’er tea. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity comparisons, strain 7578-1T was grouped into the genus Bacillus and appeared to be closely related to the type strains Bacillus shackletonii LMG 18435T (98.4 %), Bacillus acidicola DSM 14745T (97.6 %), Bacillus paralicheniformis KACC 18426T (97.2 %) and Bacillus ginsengihumi KCTC 13944T (96.7 %). The fatty acid profile containing the major fatty acids, iso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0 and anteiso-C17 : 0 supported the allocation of strain 7578-1T to the genus Bacillus . The strain had a cell-wall type A1γ peptidoglycan with meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid. The major menaquinone was MK-7 (95 %). The predominant polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylmethylethanolamine, phosphatidylethanolamine, one unidentified phospholipid and one unidentified lipid. The average nucleotide identity values between strain 7578-1T and its most closely related species were 67.8–82.4 % by OrthoANIu analysis. The DNA–DNA relatedness value between strain 7578-1T and the type strains of closely related species were 17–39 %, again indicating that strain 7578-1T represented a novel species in the genus Bacillus . The DNA G+C content of strain 7578-1T was 36.0 mol%. On the basis of the presented polyphasic evidence, strain 7578-1T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Bacillus , for which we propose the name Bacillus camelliae sp. nov. The type strain is 7578-1T (=CGMCC 1.15374T=KCTC 33845T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002542