A taxonomic study was carried out on Gsoil 142$^T$, a bacterial strain isolated from the soil collected in a ginseng field in Pocheon province, South Korea. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence studies showed a clear affiliation of this bacterium to the Gammaproteobacteria, and it was most closely related to Hydrocarboniphaga effusa ATCC BAA 332$^T$ (94.4%, 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity), Nevskia ramosa DSM 11499$^T$ (94.1%) and Alkanibacter difficilis MN154.3$^T$ (92.0%). Strain Gsoil 142$^T$ was a Gram-negative, strictly aerobic, motile, and rod-shaped bacterium. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 69.9% and predominant ubiquinone was Q-8. Major fatty acids were summed feature 8 ($C_{18:1}{omega}7c$ and/or ${omega}6c$, 36.3%), summed feature 3 (iso-$C_{15:0}$2-OH and/or $C_{16:1}{omega}7c$, 20.6%) and $C_{16:0}$ (17.4%). The major polar lipids detected in strain Gsoil $142^T$ were phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, and an unknown glycolipid. On the basis of polyphasic evidence, it is proposed that strain Gsoil 142$^T$ should be placed in a novel genus and species, for which the name Panacagrimonas perspica gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is Gsoil 142$^T$ (=KCTC 12982$^T$ =LMG 23239$^T$).