methylobacterium ajmalii methylobacterium ajmalii methylobacterium ajmalii is a species of methylobacterium. methylobacterium ajmalii scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: hyphomicrobiales family: methylobacteriaceae genus: methylobacterium species: m. ajmalii binomial name methylobacterium ajmaliibijlani et al. 2021 in march 2021, a new species, named methylobacterium ajmalii, associated with three new strains, designated if7sw-b2t, iif1sw-b5, and iif4sw-b5, was reported to have been discovered, for the first time, on the international space station