Methylobacterium oxalidis sp. nov., isolated from leaves of Oxalis corniculata Tani, Akio and Sahin, Nurettin and Kimbara, Kazuhide,, 62, 1647-1652 (2012), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.033019-0, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A pink-pigmented, facultatively methylotrophic bacterium, strain 35aT, was isolated from the leaves of Oxalis corniculata. Cells of strain 35aT were Gram-reaction-negative, motile, non-spore-forming rods. The highest 16S rRNA gene pairwise sequence similarities for strain 35aT were found with the strains of Methylobacterium iners 5317S-33T (96.7 %), ‘Methylobacterium soli’ YIM 48816 (96.6 %) and Methylobacterium jeotgali S2R03-9T (96.3 %). 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities with the type strains of all other recognized species of the genus Methylobacterium were below 96 %. Major cellular fatty acids were C18 : 1ω7c, C18 : 0 and C16 : 0. The results of DNA–DNA hybridization experiments, analysis of cpn60 gene sequences, fatty acid profiles, whole-cell MALDI-TOF/MS spectral pattern analysis, and physiological and biochemical tests allowed genotypic and phenotypic differentiation of strain 35aT from its nearest phylogenetic neighbours. Strain 35aT is therefore considered to represent a novel species within the genus Methylobacterium , for which the name Methylobacterium oxalidis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 35aT ( = DSM 24028T = NBRC 107715T)., language=, type=