Heritiera fomes
Buch.-Ham. (1800) is a species of mangrove in the family Malvaceae, widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific and listed as ‘endangered’ (EN) on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) red list. We reported the complete chloroplast genome sequence of
H. fomes.
The genome was 168,521 bp in length and included two inverted repeats (IRs) of 34,496 bp, separated by a large single-copy (LSC) region of 88,604 bp and a small single-copy (SSC) region of 10,925 bp, respectively. The genome contained 87 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 8 rRNA genes, and 37 tRNA genes. The maximum-likelihood (ML) phylogenetic tree suggested that
H. fomes
is closely related to
Heritiera angustata
and
Heritiera parvifolia
with relatively high support bootstrap values of 86% and 100% with other species (
Heritiera littoralis
and
Heritiera javanica
), suggesting a relatively close genetic relationship between the five
Heritiera
plants. The chloroplast genome sequence provided a useful resource for conservation genetics studies of
H. fomes
and for phylogenetic studies of
Heritiera
.