Paenibacillus xerothermodurans sp. nov., an extremely dry heat resistant spore forming bacterium isolated from the soil of Cape Canaveral, Florida.

A Gram-stain-positive, motile, endospore-producing, facultative anaerobic bacterial strain, designated ATCC 27380, was isolated from heat-stressed soil of Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. Growth was observed at 20-42 °C (optimum, 37 °C), at pH 6.0-10.