The complete chloroplast genome of a rare orchid species Liparis loeselii (L.)

Abstract

Liparis loeselii is a rare orchid species protected in Europe, in some parts of North America and worldwide in scope of the Washington Convention (CITES). Nowadays, the range of L. loeselii is declining, mainly due to loss of its natural habitat. In this study, we reported the complete plastid (cp) genome of L. loeselii from Next-Generation Sequencing. The whole genome was 153,687 bp, consisting of a pair of inverted repeats of 25,709 bp, large single copy region and a small single copy region (84,596 and 17,673 bp in length, respectively). The cp genome contained 140 genes, including 81 protein-coding genes, 40 trRNA genes and 8 rRNA genes. The overall GC content of the whole genome was 36.9%. A neighbour-joining phylogenetic analysis demonstrated a close relationship between L. loeselii and Dendrobium officinale.