It is named for and found in the Korean fermented-vegetable food kimchi.

[3] The cells of C. kimchii are short, slender and rod-shaped.

The bacterium is Gram-positive, non-spore-forming and non-motile.

[2] Pang, Huili; Kitahara, Maki; Tan, Zhongfang; Wang, Yanping; Qin, Guangyong; Ohkuma, Moriya; Cai, Yimin (18 November 2011).

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