pedomicrobium ferrugineum pedomicrobium ferrugineum pedomicrobium ferrugineum is a rod-shaped, aerobic to microaerophillic bacterium from the genus of pedomicrobium with one polar or supolar flagellum. pedomicrobium ferrugineum has been isolated from podzolic soil in north germany pedomicrobium ferrugineum scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: hyphomicrobiales family: hyphomicrobiaceae genus: pedomicrobium species: p. ferrugineum binomial name pedomicrobium ferrugineumaristovskaya 1961 type strain atcc 33119, dsm 1540, ifam s-1290, s-122