Brachybacterium paraconglomeratum

Brachybacterium paraconglomeratum is a species of Gram positive, facultatively anaerobic, pale brown pigmented bacterium. The cells are coccoid during the stationary phase, and irregular rods during the exponential phase. The species was identified when a strain of "Brachybacterium faecium" was found to be a different species of "Brachybacterium". The name is derived from Latin "para" (alongside of, resembling) and "conglomeratum" (rolled together). "B. paraconglomeratum" resembles "Brachybacterium conglomeratum" phenotypically, and but are separate species based on DNA–DNA hybridization. "B. paraconglomeratum" and "B. conglomeratum" were first proposed as species in the same paper in 1995, along with "B. rhamnosum".