Herbaspirillum

Herbaspirillum is a genus of bacteria, including the nitrogen-fixing Herbaspirillum lusitanum.^[3]

Herbaspirillum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Betaproteobacteria
Order:	Burkholderiales
Family:	Oxalobacteraceae
Genus:	Herbaspirillum Baldani et al. 1986
Type species
Herbaspirillum seropedicae
Species
H. aquaticum [1] H. autotrophicum [1] H. chlorophenolicum H. frisingense H. hiltneri H. huttiense H. lusitanum H. massiliense [2] H. rhizosphaerae H. rubrisubalbicans H. seropedicae

Although usually found in soil environments, it has also been identified as a contaminant of DNA extraction kit reagents, which may lead to its erroneous appearance in microbiota or metagenomic datasets.^[4]