Aerobic, mesophilic chemoorganotroph.
Has superior attributes of saprophytic competence, nitrogen fixation and acid-tolerance.
Soil-inhabiting bacterium that has the capacity to be an effective nitrogen fixing microsymbiont of a diverse range of annual Trifolium (clover) species.
Isolated from a nodule recovered from the roots of an annual clover plant growing near Livadi beach on the Greek Cyclades island of Serifos in 1993.