Species delimitation of tea plants (Camellia sect. Thea) based on super-barcodes.

Background: The era of high throughput sequencing offers new paths to identifying species boundaries that are complementary to traditional morphology-based delimitations. De novo species delimitation using traditional or DNA super-barcodes serve as efficient approaches to recognizing putative species (molecular operational taxonomic units, MOTUs). Tea plants (Camellia sect.

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of and its phylogenetic position.

is a member of the genus , which distributes in Central and South America. Genetic information of would provide guidance for the phylogenetic position of this species. Here, we reported and characterized its complete chloroplast (cp) genome using Illumina pair-end sequencing data.