Two axenic cultures of Planctomycetota were isolated from distinct geographical locations of India. Strain JC665 T was isolated from a rhizosphere soil of Loktak lake, Manipur, whereas strain JC747 was isolated from a sediment located at Pallikkara village, Kerala, India. The two closely related strains shared the highest (94.6%) 16S rRNA gene sequence identity with Paludidphaera borealis PX4 T , while the 16S rRNA gene sequence identity between both strains was 100%. Both strains grow aerobically, stain Gram negative, colonies are light pink-coloured, cells are non-motile, spherical to oval-shaped and tolerate NaCl up to 2% (w/v). While strain JC665 T grows well up to pH 9.0, strain JC747 up to pH 8.0. Respiratory quinone for both strains was MK-6. C 16:0 , C 18:1 ω9c and C 18:0 are the major fatty acids.Phosphatidylcholine, two unidenti ed glycolipids, seven unidenti ed lipids and two unidenti ed phospholipid was the polar lipid composition of both strains. Both strains have genome size of about 8.0Mb and have GC content of 66.4 mol%. Both strains contained genes encoding for lycopene related carotenoids. The phylogenetic position, morphological, physiological and genomic features support the classi cation of strain JC665 T as a new species of the genus Paludisphaera, for which we propose the name Paludisphaera rhizosphaerae sp. nov. Strain JC665 T (= KCTC 72671 T = NBRC 114305 T ) and JC747 are the type and non-type strain of the new species, respectively.