Strain 5GH22-11T, which was isolated from greenhouse soil in the Yangpyeong region, Gyeonggi province, Republic of Korea, was characterized to be an aerobic, Gram-stain-negative, flagellated, rod-shaped bacterium. It could grow at temperatures from 10 to 33 °C (optimum of 28-30 °C), in the pH range of 6.0-10.0 (optimum of pH 7.0) and without NaCl. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain 5GH18-14T showed the highest sequence similarities with Lysobacter niabensis GH34-4T (98.6 %), Lysobacter yangpyeongensis GH19-3T (98.1 %), 'Lysobacter fragariae' THG-DN8.7 (97.9 %), Lysobacter terrae THG-A13T (97.3 %), 'Lysobacter rhizosphaerae' THG-DN8.3 (97.2 %), 'Lysobacter tyrosinelyticus' THG-DN8.2 (97.2 %) and Lysobacter oryzae YC6269T (97.2 %), revealing less than 95.5 % sequence similarities with all other species with validly published names. Phylogenetic trees also indicated that strain 5GH18-14T formed a compact subcluster with L. niabensis GH34-4T, L. yangpyeongensis GH19-3T, L. terrae THG-A13T and L. oryzae YC6269T within the genus Lysobacter. The predominant quinone of strain 5GH18-14T was Q-8. The polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylmonomethylethanolamine in large amounts, and moderate or small amounts of three unknown phospholipids and two unknown aminophospholipids. DNA-DNA hybridization values with closely related species were below 70 %. The DNA G+C content was 65.9 mol%. Based on the phylogenetic, physiological and chemotaxonomic data, it has been demonstrated that strain 5GH18-14T represents a novel species of the genus Lysobacter, for which the name Lysobacter terricola sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 5GH18-14T ( = KACC 16954T = JCM 30862T).