The complete chloroplast genome of Atractylodes koreana (Nakai) Kitam and its phylogenetic analysis

Atractylodes koreana (Nakai) Kitam is a perennial herb of Asteraceae, mainly distributed in China and Korea, which is the main adulterant of traditional herbal medicine ‘Cangzhu’. In the present study, we reported the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of A. koreana with the total length of 153,232 bp, which is consisted of four regions, including one large single copy (LSC) region of 84,250 bp, one small single copy (SSC) region of 18,690 bp, and two inverted repeat regions (IRa and IRb) of 25,146 bp. The GC content of the complete cp genome is 37.7%. A total of 110 unique genes were annotated, comprising 79 protein-coding genes, 27 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes and four ribosome RNA (rRNA) genes. Moreover, nine protein-coding genes contained one intron and three protein-coding genes (clpP, ycf3, and rps12) contained two introns. The phylogenetic analysis indicated that A. koreana is a sister group of A. chinensis and A. lancea.