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p-Hydroxybenzoate is an allelopathic compound commonly found in soil from long-term monoculture cropping systems. During the bacterial diversity analysis of saline soil, a Gram-negative, non-spore forming, non-motile, aerobic p-hydroxybenzoate-degrading bacterial strain, designated LN3S51, was isolated from saline soil which was sampled from Tumd Right Banner, Inner Mongolia, northern China. Strain LN3S51 grew at 4-40 °C (optimum, 30 °C), pH 5.0-10.0 (optimum, pH 7.0) and 0-15 % NaCl (optimum 3.0 %). Though strain LN3S51 has the highest 16S rRNA gene similarities to GJSW-31 (96.0 %), the phylogenetic tree based on the 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that it clustered with SM1902 (95.8 %), TG-679 (93.9 %), and LMIT002 (93.9 %). Strain LN3S51 contained Q-10 as the major ubiquinone. Phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), phosphatidylglycerol (PG), phosphatidylcholine (PC), diphosphatidylglycerol (DPG), an unidentified aminolipid (AL), and two unidentified lipids (L) were the major polar lipids. The major fatty acids were sum feature 8 (Cc and/or Cc), C, C, and Cc 11-methyl. The genome of strain LN3S51 consisted of a 2 257 066 bp chromosome and four plasmids with a 59.1 mol% of genomic DNA G+C content. The average nucleotide identity (ANI) and digital DNA-DNA hybridization score (dDDH) values of strain LN3S51 to SM1902, TG-679, LMIT002, and GJSW-31 were 69.6, 70.9, 70.6, and 69.5 %, and 20.0, 19.5, 19.0, and 20.0 %, respectively. Based on the results of phylogenetic, chemtaxonomic and phenotypic characterization, strain LN3S51 is considered to represent a novel species in a new genus within the family , for which gen. nov. sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is LN3S51 (=CGMCC 1.17099=KCTC 72457).