Holzapfelia floricola, Zheng & Wittouck & Salvetti & Franz & Harris & Mattarelli & O’Toole & Pot & Vandamme & Walter & Watanabe & Wuyts & Felis & Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020

Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O’Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4), pp. 2782-2858 : 2801

DESCRIPTION OF HOLZAPFELIA FLORICOLA COMB. NOV.

Holzapfelia floricola (flo.ri’co.la. L. fem. n. flos flower, blossom; L. suff. – cola from L. masc. or fem. n. incola dweller; N.L. fem. n. floricola flower-dweller).

Basonym: Lactobacillus floricola Kawasaki et al. 2011, 1358 VP.

The description of the species is identical of that of the genus. The genome size is 1.29 Mbp, the mol% G+C content is 34.5.

Isolated from flowers.

The type strain is Ryu1-2 T = DSM 23037 T = JCM 16512 T = NRIC 0774 T .

Genome sequence accession number: AYZL00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AB523780 .