The complete plastid genome of Delonix regia (Hook.) Raf. (Leguminosae)

Delonix regia, a plant species of the legume family native to Madagascar, has been widely cultivated in the tropical and subtropical regions as an ornamental tree due to its remarkable showy orange-red flowers over summer. Here we report for the first time the complete plastid genome of this species, which has a typical circular structure with a total length of 162,756 bp and contains two inverted repeat regions (IRs, 25,544 bp), a large single copy region (LSC, 92,490 bp), and a small single copy region (SSC, 19,178 bp). The phylogenetic analysis based on the complete plastome sequences of this species and those of the related species from GenBank strongly suggested that D. regia is nested in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae and is sister to a clade consisting of Erythrophlium fordii and the old-sense Mimosoideae.