elizabethkingia endophytica elizabethkingia endophytica elizabethkingia endophytica is a slightly yellow gram-stain-negative rod-shaped bacterial strain isolated from the stem of healthy 10-day-old sweet corn (zea mays). a comparison of the 16s rrna gene sequence of the isolate showed 99.1, 97.8, and 97.4% similarity to the 16s rrna gene sequences of the type strains of elizabethkingia anophelis, elizabethkingia meningoseptica and elizabethkingia miricola, respectively. dna-dna hybridization indicated that the strain is representative of a new species. elizabethkingia endophytica scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: bacteroidota class: flavobacteriia order: flavobacteriales family: weeksellaceae genus: elizabethkingia species: e. endophytica binomial name elizabethkingia endophyticakämpfer et al. 2015