sp. nov., isolated from symptomatic and trees in the UK.

Several strains of a previously undescribed bacterial species were isolated from mature hybrid trees suffering from bleeding cankers at various geographic locations in the UK. The strains were Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, and partial sequencing of the gene revealed that the strains belong to the genus with the closest phylogenetic neighbours being and . Further investigation using a polyphasic approach was undertaken to determine the taxonomic position of the novel species.