DESCRIPTIONOF FRUCTILACTOBACILLUS FLORUM COMB. NOV.

Fructilactobacillus florum (flo’rum. L. gen. pl. n. florum, of flowers, from which the type strain was isolated).

Basonym: Lactobacillus florum Endo et al. 2010, 2481 VP

The species was described as composed by three fructophilic strains [310]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.35 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 41.1.

Iolated from peony and bietou flowers, and from grapes and wine.

Thetypestrainis F9-1 T =DSM 22689 T =CM 16035 T =NRIC 0771 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AYZI00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AB498045.