novosphingobium gossypii novosphingobium gossypii novosphingobium gossypii is a gram-negative, rod-shaped and non-spore-forming bacterium from the genus novosphingobium which has been isolated from tissues from the plant gossypium hirsutum. novosphingobium gossypii scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: sphingomonadales family: erythrobacteraceae genus: novosphingobium species: n. gossypii binomial name novosphingobium gossypiikämpfer et al. 2015 type strain ccm 8569, cip 110884, lmg 28605, jm-1396