DESCRIPTIONOF LEVILACTOBACILLUS BAMBUSAE COMB. NOV.

Levilactobacillusbambusae (bam.bu’sae. N.L. gen. n. bambusae of the plant genus Bambusa from which the type strain was isolated).

Basonym: Lactobacillus bambusae Guu et al. 2018, 2428 VP

Characteristics of the species are as described [292]; L. bambusae is more distantly related to other species in Levilactobacillus than any other species in the genus as documented by AAI, G+C content and genome size. The genome size of thetypestrainis 1.97 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 46.3.

Isolated from traditional fermented bamboo shoots.

Thetypestrainis BS-W1 T = BCRC 80970 T = NBRC 112377 T.

Genome sequence accession number: QCXQ00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: KX400838.