Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequence of Camellia caudata(Theaceae)
Camellia caudata Wall.1832,a small tree,mainly distributes in South Asia.It is an important medicinal plant because of its high antioxidant contents.Here,for the first time,we report and characterize its complete chloroplast genome based on Illumina paired-end sequencing data.The complete chloroplast genome is 157 043 bp in length,and contains two inverted repeats(IRs)of 26 095 bp separated by a large single-copy(LSC)of 86 599 bp and a small single copy(SSC)of 18 272 bp.The plastome comprises 89 protein-coding genes,37 tRNA genes,8 rRNA genes and 1 processed pseudogene(ycf 2).The overall GC content of the plastome is 37.3%.Phylogenetic analysis based on 20 plastomes demonstrated that C.caudata is closely related to the congeneric C.semiser-rata var.magnocarpa and C.mairei.