| Nocardiopsis |
| Morphology | Nocardiopsis |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-positive not acid fast |
| Morphology | Substrate mycelium well developed, hyphae long and densely branched, 0.5-0.8 um in diameter; fragmentation into coccoid and bacillary elements may occur. Aerial mycelium usually well developed and abundant, hyphae long and moderately branched, straight, flexuous, or irregularly zig-zagged, completely fragmenting into spores of various lengths. Spores oval to elongated, spore surface smooth. When aerial mycelium is lacking, surface of colonies coarsely wrinkled or folded; otherwise covered by a woolly or farinaceous aerial mycelium |
| Motility | |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Nocardiopsis |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | chemoorganotrophic |
| Oxygen | aerobic |
| pH | |
| Temperature | Temperature range from 10` to 45`C. |
| Requirements | |
| Products | |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features | The cell wall contains meso-2,6-diaminopimelic acid (meso-DAP) with no diagnostic sugars. Mycoloic acids absent. Menaquinones are predominantly of the MK-10(H2,H4,H6) or of the MK-9(H4,H6) type. |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | Found in soil, milkweed grain, and clinical material of animal and human origin |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Nocardiopsis |
| G+C Mol % | 64-69 (Tm) |
| Reference | Nocardiopsis |
| First citation | Mayer, J. 1976. Nocardiopsis, a new genus of the order Actinomycetales. IJSB 26: 487-493 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2562 Jutta Meyer |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 693 |
| References |