| Cross Index | Amycolata |
| 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 | Nocardia autotrophica, Nocardia hydrocarbonoxydans, Nocardaria saturnea were moved to this genus |
| Morphology | Amycolata |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | |
| Morphology | The norcardioforms form a fugacious mycelium that breaks up into rod shaped or coccoid elements. Branching vegative hyhpae (0.5-2.0 um in diameter) tend to fragment into squarish elements. The hyphal wall of both aerial and vegative mycelium is covered with by an electron dense layer. Multiple divisions of intercalary or terminal portions of hyphae occur |
| Motility | |
| Specialized structures | When formed aerial hyphae may be stable or may differenitate into long chians of smooth walled ellipsoidal to cylindrical spores. Spore chains are also produced on vegative hyphae. |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface | aerial mycelium may or may not be present. |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Amycolata |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | some strains are facultativley autotrophic |
| Oxygen | |
| pH | |
| Temperature | mesophilic |
| Requirements | |
| Products | Cells contain diphosphatidylglecerol, phosphatidylmethylethanolamine and phosphatidylcholine as major phospholipids. Di and tetrahydrogenated menaquinones with with eight isoprene units are the predominant isoprenologs |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | isolated from soil and decomposing vegetable matter, Alnus rhizosphere and root nodules and clinical material |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Amycolata |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Amycolata |
| First Citation | Lechevalier et al 1986 IJSB 36: 29-37 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 628 |
| References |