Echeveria lilacina
Kimnach & Moran
1980
is a succulent plant having ornamental and ecological importance. In this study, the first complete chloroplast genome of
Echeveria lilacina,
a species belonging to the Crassulaceae family, was characterized from the
de novo
assembly of Illumina NovaSeq 6000 paired-end sequencing data. The chloroplast genome of
E. lilacina
is 150,080 bp in length, which includes a large single-copy (LSC) region of 81,741 bp, a small single-copy (SSC) region of 16,747 bp, and a pair of identical inverted repeat regions (IRs) of 25,796 bp each. The genome annotation revealed a total of 138 genes, including 87 protein-coding genes, 41 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes, and 10 ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes. The phylogenetic analysis with 15 complete chloroplast genome sequences including outgroup showed that
E. lilacina
formed the closest taxonomical relationship with
Graptopetalum amethystinum
in the Crassulaceae family.
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