The complete chloroplast genome of hemiparasitic flowering plant Schoepfia jasminodora

The complete chloroplast genome hemiparasitic plant Schoepfia jasminodora (Schoepfiaceae), was determined in this study by de novo assembly with whole-genome sequence data. The chloroplast genome is 118,743 bp in length with a typical quadripartite structure containing a pair of inverted repeats of 12,406 bp, separated by a large and a small single copy fragments of 84,168 bp and 9763 bp, respectively. The chloroplast genome contains 112 genes that consisting of 69 protein-coding, 27 tRNA, 4 rRNA and 3 pseudolized genes. All of the ndh (except for ndhA) and two tRNA (trnV-UAG and trnG-UCC) genes were found to be lost. The three pseudogenes are ndhA, ycf15 and trnL-CAA. Schoepfia represents the early stages of chloroplast genome degradation along with its transition to heterotrophy in related taxa.