Dendrosporobacter


Dendrosporobacter is a genus in the phylum Bacillota. Members of the class Negativicutes, stain gram negative, despite being firmicutes

Etymology

The name Dendrosporobacter derives from:
Greek noun dendron, tree; Greek noun spora , a seed, and in biology a spore; Neo-Latin noun, a rod bacter, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, rod, staff; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun Dendrosporobacter, a spore-bearing rod from a tree.

Species

The genus contains a single species, namely D. quercicolus Strömpl et al. 2000, .