A detailed evaluation of eight bacterial isolates from floral nectar and animal visitors to flowers shows evidence that they represent three novel species in the genus . Phylogenomic analysis shows the closest relatives of these new isolates are , and , previously described species associated with floral nectar and bees, but high genome-wide sequence divergence defines these isolates as novel species. Pairwise comparisons of the average nucleotide identity of the new isolates compared to known species is extremely low (<83 %), thus confirming that these samples are representative of three novel species, for which the names sp. nov., sp. nov. and sp. nov. are proposed. The respective type strains are SCC477 (=TSD-214=LMG 31655), B10A (=TSD-213=LMG 31702) and EC24 (=TSD-215=LMG 31703=DSM 111781).

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