In addition to the properties given in the genus description, cells are circular, opaque, yellow coloured and 0.2–0.5 µm wide and 1.2–2.0 µm long. Growth occurs at 18–37 °C (optimum, 30 °C), pH 6.5–8.0 (optimum, pH 7.0) and 0–1.0% NaCl. Strain BR5-29T does not hydrolyze Tween-80, starch, casein, xylan, CM-cellulose, and DNase agar. In API kit (ZYM, 32GN, and 20NE), positive for alkaline phosphatase, lipase (C14), leucine arylamidase, naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase, α-glucosidase, β-glucosidase, N-acetyl-β-glucosaminidase, β-and galactosidase. List of all negative traits of commercial kits is shown in Table S1. The polar lipids are phosphatidylglycerol (PG), diphosphatidylglycerol (DPG), phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and five unidentified polar lipids (L1–L5), two unidentified amino-lipid (AL1-AL2) and one unidentified aminophospholipid (APL). The DNA G+C content is 37.6 mol%.
The type strain, BR5-29(T) (= KACC 18745(T) = LMG 30462(T)), was isolated from soil of ginseng field in Korea Republic.