| Cross Index | Gordona | 
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Actinomycetes, Nocardioform Actinomycetes | 
| Compare | Actinobispora yunnanensis, Actinokineospora riparia , Actinopolyspora, Amycolata, Amycolatopsis Gordona, Jonesia denitrificans, Kibdelosporangium, Nocardia, Nocardioides,Oerskovia , Promicromonospora Pseudoamycolata halophobica, Pseudonocardia Rhodococcus Saccharomonospora Saccharopolyspora Terrabacter tumescens, Tsukamurella | 
| Contrast | Nocardioform Actinomycetes Actinomycetes with Multilocular Sporangia Actinoplanetes Streptomycetes and Related Genera Maduromycetes Thermomonospora & Friends Thermoactinomycetes, Actinomycetes: Other Genera | 
| Subset | 
| Morphology | Gordona | 
| CELLULAR | 
| Staining | Gram positive or Gram variable, partially acid fast | 
| Morphology | The norcardioforms form a fugacious mycelium that breaks up into rod shaped or coccoid elements.Short rods and cocci | 
| Motility | |
| Specialized structures | 
| Division | 
| COLONIAL | 
| Solid surface | rough brownish, pink or orange to red colonies on glucose yeast extract, Sauton's agar and egg media | 
| Liquid | 
| Growth Parameters | Gordona | 
| PHYSIOLOGICAL | 
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | aerobic | 
| pH | |
| Temperature | |
| Requirements | |
| Products | contain mycobactins, the glycan moitety
        of the cell wall has N-glycolyl residues. The wall
        envelope contains mycolic acids with 48-66 carbon atoms
        and up to four double bonds and major proportions of
        straight chain saturated, monounsaturated and 10-methyl
        (tuberculosteric) branched fatty acids. Fatty acid esters
        released on pyrolysis gas chromatography of mycolic
        esters have 16-18 carbon atoms. Cells contain diphosphatidylglecerol, phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidiylinositol dimannosides as major phospholipids. Dihydrogenated menequinone with nine isoprene units is the predominant isoprenolog | 
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features | 
| ENVIRONMENTAL | 
| Habitat | soil, isolated from the sputa of patients with bronchiectasis and cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis | 
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity | 
| Distribution | 
| Genome | Gordona | 
| G+C Mol % | 
| Reference | Gordona | 
| First Citation | Stackebrandt et al 1988 J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol 34: 341-348 | 
| The Prokaryotes | p | 
| Bergey's Determinative | p 625-626 | 
| References |