RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Nouioui, Imen A1 Sangal, Vartul A1 Cortés-Albayay, Carlos A1 Jando, Marlen A1 Igual, José Mariano A1 Klenk, Hans-Peter A1 Zhang, Yu-Qin A1 Goodfellow, MichaelYR 2019 T1 Mycolicibacterium stellerae sp. nov., a rapidly growing scotochromogenic strain isolated from Stellera chamaejasme JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 69 IS 11 SP 3465 OP 3471 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003644 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A polyphasic study was undertaken to establish the taxonomic provenance of a rapidly growing Mycolicibacterium strain, CECT 8783T, recovered from the plant Stellera chamaejasme L. in Yunnan Province, China. Phylogenetic analyses based upon 16S rRNA and whole-genome sequences showed that the strain formed a distinct branch within the evolutionary radiation of the genus Mycolicibacterium . The strain was most closely related to Mycolicibacterium moriokaense DSM 44221T with 98.4 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, but was distinguished readily from this taxon by a combination of chemotaxonomic and phenotypic features and by low average nucleotide identity and digital DNA–DNA hybridization values of 79.5 and 21.1 %, respectively. Consequently, the strain is considered, to represent a novel species of Mycolicibacterium for which the name Mycolicibacterium stellerae sp. nov is proposed; the type strain is I10A-01893T (=CECT 8783T=KCTC 19843T=DSM 45590T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.003644