sp. nov., isolated from soil in Thailand.

A novel actinomycete strain, CT2-14, belonging to the genus , was isolated from a soil sample collected from Phichit Province, Thailand. The taxonomic position of the strain was characterized using a polyphasic approach. The strain grew at 15-40 °C (optimum, 28-37 °C), pH 6-11 (optimum, pH 6-8) and on an International Project 2 with 4 % (w/v) NaCl agar plate. -diaminopimelic acid was detected in the cell-wall peptidoglycan. Ribose, arabinose and galactose were detected in its whole-cell hydrolysates. Mycolic acids were present. The strain contained C, summed feature 3, C 10-methyl and C 9 as the major fatty acids and MK-8(Hω-cycl) as the major menaquinone. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, diphosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylinositol mannosides. Strain CT2-14 showed the highest 16S rRNA gene similarity to JCM 11307 (98.4 %), JCM 11438 (98.2 %) and JCM 13032 (98.0 %). The draft genome of strain CT2-14 was 7.37 Mb with 6685 coding sequences with an average G+C content of 67.9 mol %. Based on the phylogenomic tree analysis, the strain was closely related to NBRC 100131. On the basis of polyphasic and genome analyses, strain CT2-14 represented a novel species of the genus for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is CT2-14 (=JCM 33775=TISTR 2838).