The complete chloroplast genome of Benth. (Plantaginaceae), an ornamental and medicinal plant.

In this study, we assembled and characterized the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of Benth., 1846, a herbaceous and perennial plant, native to Latin America. It is an ornamental and medicinal plant that showed bright prospects for application. The cp genome of has a typical conserved quadripartite structure of 154,316 bp in total length. The genome includes a large single-copy (LSC) region (84,110 bp), a small single-copy (SSC) region (15,950 bp), and a pair of inverted repeat (IR) regions (27,128 bp). The cp genome contains 130 genes comprising 85 protein-coding, 37 tRNA, and 8 rRNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that is closely related to , , and in the Plantaginaceae. Taken together, the complete cp genomes of provided significant insights and important information for molecular biology, evolution, and taxonomy in the genus .