novosphingobium endophyticum novosphingobium endophyticum novosphingobium endophyticum is a gram-negative, rod-shaped and aerobic bacterium from the genus novosphingobium which has been isolated from the roots of the plant glycyrrhiza uralensis from yuli county in china. novosphingobium endophyticum scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sphingomonadales family: erythrobacteraceae genus: novosphingobium species: n. endophyticum binomial name novosphingobium endophyticumli et al. 2016