The complete chloroplast genome of (Malvaceae).

In this study, we assembled the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of using high-throughput Illumina sequencing reads. The resulting plastome assembly displayed a typical quadripartite structure with a total length of 160,332 bp, containing a pair of inverted repeat regions (IRs) of 26,313 bp separated by a large single-copy region (LSC) of 88,750 bp and a small single-copy region (SSC) of 18,956 bp. The cp genome contained 128 genes, and its overall GC content was 36.96%. Phylogenetic analysis among and five other Malvaceae species demonstrated that was closely related to and . The cp genome presented in this study will lay a good foundation for further genetic and genomic studies of the genus as well as Malvaceae.