paraburkholderia sprentiae paraburkholderia sprentiae paraburkholderia sprentiae is a gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium from the genus paraburkholderia and the family burkholderiaceae which was isolated from root nodules from the plant lebeckia ambigua in south africa. paraburkholderia sprentiae scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: betaproteobacteria order: burkholderiales family: burkholderiaceae genus: paraburkholderia species: p. sprentiae binomial name paraburkholderia sprentiae(de meyer et al. 2013) sawana et al. 2015 type strain wsm4187t wsm5005t hambi 3357t lmg 27175t vandamme r-49719t wsm5005t synonyms burkholderia sprentiae de meyer et al. 2013 the species was named in honor of professor janet sprent of dundee university, in recognition of her work on nitrogen fixation.