Stackebrandtia endophytica sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from Tripterygium wilfordii Xiong, Zi-Jun and Miao, Cui-Ping and Zheng, You-Kun and Liu, Kai and Li, Wen-Jun and Liu, Wei-Hong and Xu, Li-Hua and Zhao, Li-Xing,, 65, 1709-1713 (2015), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000166, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A novel endophytic actinobacterium, designated strain YIM 64602T, was isolated from healthy stems of Tripterygium wilfordii. It grew at 15–40 °C, pH 6.0–9.0 and in the presence of 0–3 % (w/v) NaCl. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequence showed that strain YIM 64602T belongs to the genus Stackebrandtia . Whole-cell hydrolysates of strain YIM 64602T contained the amino acid meso-diaminopimelic acid with the sugars mannose, rhamnose and glucose, and a trace of ribose. The major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylmethylethanolamine and phosphatidylethanolamine. MK-10(H6), MK-10(H4) and MK-11(H4) were the predominant components in the quinone system. The fatty-acid pattern was mainly composed of the saturated branched-chain acids iso-C16 : 0, anteiso-C17 : 0, iso-C15 : 0 and iso-C17 : 0. The DNA G+C content was 72.4 mol%. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed the highest pairwise sequence identity (96.0–98.5 %) with the members of the genus Stackebrandtia . Strain YIM 64602T displayed a DNA–DNA relatedness of 43.9±0.4 % with the type strain Stackebrandtia albiflava YIM 45751T. Based on evidence from this polyphasic study, strain YIM 64602T ( = BCRC 16954T = DSM 45928T) is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Stackebrandtia , for which the name Stackebrandtia endophytica is proposed., language=, type=