Sphingomonas palmae BN

Hwang, Chi Young, Cho, Eui-Sang, Jung, Dong-Hyun, Lee, Ki-Eun, Cha, In-Tae & Seo, Won-Jae Chi and Myung-Ji, 2023, A report on 10 unrecorded bacterial species isolated from the Korean islands in 2022, Journal of Species Research 12, pp. 54-59 : 57

Description of Sphingomonas palmae BN 246

The cells are Gram-stain-negative, non-flagellated and rod shaped. The colonies are circular, convex, entire and orange colored after incubation for 14 days on R2 A agar at 15℃. Positive for arginine dihydrolase, urease, esculin hydrolysis, β -galactosidase and cytochrome oxidase; but negative for nitrates reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation and gelatin hydrolysis in API 20NE. D- Glucose, D- mannose, potassium gluconate, adipic acid and malic acid are utilized as sole carbon sources; but L- arabinose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose, capric acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid are not. Strain BN246 (= HNIBRBA1398) was isolated from a lichen sample, Anmyeon-do (36°34′16″N, 126°18′50″E), Chungcheongnam-do, Korea .