''Botryobacter'' is a
Gram-negative
Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that, unlike gram-positive bacteria, do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. Their defining characteristic is that their cell envelope consists ...
and
rod-shaped
Bacterial cellular morphologies are the shapes that are characteristic of various types of bacteria and often key to their identification. Their direct examination under a light microscope enables the classification of these bacteria (and archae ...
bacterial genus from the family of
Hymenobacteraceae with one known species (''Botryobacter ruber'').
''Botryobacter ruber'' has been isolated from soil from the Gurbantunggut Desert.[
]
References
Cytophagia
Monotypic bacteria genera
Taxa described in 2019
{{Bacteroidetes-stub