sphingomonas morindae sphingomonas morindae sphingomonas morindae is a gram-negative, aerobic, short rod-shaped, non-spore-forming and non-motile bacteria from the genus of sphingomonas which has been isolated from the inner tissue of the plant morinda citrifolia in sanya on hainan in china. sphingomonas morindae scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sphingomonadales family: sphingomonadaceae genus: sphingomonas binomial name sphingomonas morindaeliu et al. 2015 type strain cicc 10879, dsm 29151, kctc 42183, nbd5, nbd8