“…The published Rhododendron spp. are as follows: R. pulchrum (MN182619, 146,941 bp), R. simsii (MW030509, 152,214 bp), R. delavayi (MN413198, 193,798 bp), R. mole (MZ073672, 197,877 bp), R. platypodum (MT985162, 201,047 bp), R. griersonianum (MT533181, 206,467 bp), R. datiandingense (MW381788, 207,311 bp), and R. kawakamii (MW762686, 230,777 bp) (Shen et al, 2020;Xu et al, 2021;Liu et al, 2020b;Liu et al, 2021;Ma et al, 2021;Liu et al, 2020a;Wang et al, 2021b;Wang et al, 2021a). Considering the numerous Rhododendron species, the cp genome data of Rhododendron spp.…”