Characterization of the plastome of Camellia pingguoensis (Theaceae), an endangered and endemic yellow camellia species in China

摘要

Camellia pingguoensis D. Fang is a shrub which is found on limestone of karst forests in Guangxi, China. In this study, we characterized the whole plastid genome of C. pingguoensis using Illumina paired-end sequencing reads. The plastome is 156,621?bp in length, containing two copies of inverted repeat (IR) regions (26,046?bp), a large-single copy (LSC) region (86,289?bp), and a small-single copy (SSC) region (18,240?bp). A total of 114 unique genes in the genome has 80 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes, and 4 rRNA genes. The phylogenetic result indicates C. pingguoensis is closely related to C. nitidissima C. W. Chi.