ammoniphilus oxalivorans ammoniphilus oxalivorans ammoniphilus oxalivorans is a gram-variable, spore-forming, haloalkalitolerant, rod-shaped, aerobic, obligately oxalotrophic and motile bacteria from the genus of ammoniphilus with peritrichous flagella which has been isolated from the rhizosphere of the plant rumex acetosa from a public garden in helsinki in finland. ammoniphilus oxalivorans scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: bacillota class: bacilli order: bacillales family: paenibacillaceae genus: ammoniphilus species: a.oxalivorans binomial name ammoniphilus oxalivoranszaitsev et al. 1998 type strain atcc 700648, cip 105539, dsm 11537, hambi 2284, raox-fs