sp. nov., sp. nov. and sp. nov., isolated from leaves of .

Three rod-shaped, non-spore-forming, yellow or pale-yellow pigmented bacteria with distinct MALDI-TOF mass spectra were isolated from the phyllosphere of seedlings. Their 16S rRNA gene sequences demonstrated that these isolates belong to the genus . The nearest phylogenetic neighbours of strain LMG 31462 were DSM 19110 (98.3 % 16S rRNA sequence similarity) and LMG 22862 (98.3 %); the nearest phylogenetic neighbours of strain LMG 31463 were Gsoil 042 (98.3 %) and DSM 27372 (98.1 %); and the nearest phylogenetic neighbours of strain LMG 31464 were BR-9 (99.0 %) and THG-DN3.18 (98.7 %). Average nucleotide identity analyses between the whole genome sequences of the three strains and of the type strains of their respective nearest-neighbour taxa yielded values well below the species delineation threshold and thus confirmed that the three strains represented a novel species each. An extensive phenotypic comparison and an analysis of whole-cell fatty acid components yielded distinctive phenotypic characteristics for each of these strains. We therefore propose to classify these isolates as three novel species, for which we propose the names with LMG 31462 (=R-74704=CECT 30149) as the type strain, with LMG 31463 (=R-74623=CECT 30150) as the type strain and with LMG 31464 (=R-74626=CECT 30151) as the type strain.