DESCRIPTIONOF LACTIPLANTIBACILLUS GARII COMB. NOV.

Lactiplantibacillus garii (ga’ri.i N.L. gen. n. garii of gari, the fermented cassava product from which the type strain was isolated).

Basonym: Lactobacillus garii Diaz et al. 2020, 5 VP.

L. garii grows in the temperature range of 6–42 °C and in the pH range of 4.0 to 8.8. The type strain produces D(-)-lactate from awide spectrum of pentoses, hexoses, anddisaccharides [339]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.97 Mbp. The mol% GC content of DNA is 48.3

Isolated from gari, a fermented cassava product [339].

Thetypestrainis FI11369 T = NCIMB 15148 T = DSM 108249 T.

Genome sequence accession number: QWZQ00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: MN81791.