''Saccharibacter floricola'' is an
osmophilic
An osmophile is an extremophile microorganism adapted to environments generating high osmotic pressures, such as aqueous solutions with high salt or sugar concentrations (''e.g.'', brines or sirups). Osmophiles are similar to halophiles (salt-lovi ...
acetic acid bacterium first isolated from
pollen
Pollen is a powdery substance produced by most types of flowers of seed plants for the purpose of sexual reproduction. It consists of pollen grains (highly reduced Gametophyte#Heterospory, microgametophytes), which produce male gametes (sperm ...
. It is
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 ...
, aerobic and rod-shaped, with type strain S-877
T (=AJ 13480
T =JCM 12116
T =DSM 15669
T).
It is the type species of its genus.
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LPSNType strain of ''Saccharibacter floricola'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Rhodospirillales
Bacteria described in 2004
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