phenylobacterium deserti phenylobacterium deserti phenylobacterium deserti is a gram negative, aerobic and motile bacterium from the genus of phenylobacterium which has been isolated from desert soil from the cholistan desert in pakistan. phenylobacterium deserti scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: caulobacterales family: caulobacteraceae genus: phenylobacterium species: p. deserti binomial name phenylobacterium desertikhan et al. 2017 type strain cctcc ab 2016297, dsm 103871, nccp-697, yim 73061