The complete chloroplast genome sequence of medicinal plant Alpinia chinensis (Retz.) Rosc

Alpinia chinensis (Retz.) Rosc is one of Chinese tradition herbal medicine and edible plant in China. In this report, we sequenced the complete chloroplast genome of A. chinensis. Through the assembly annotation of genome with high-throughput sequencing data, which help us to research the evolution. The length of chloroplast sequences was 163,590 bp with a large single-copy region (LSC) and a small single-copy region (SSC), also, two inverted repeat region A (IR), whose length was 88,951, 15,299, and 29,670 bp, respectively. A total of 138 genes were predicted in the complete chloroplast genome, with 36.4% GC content, including 93 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes, and 8 rRNA genes. From the phylogenetic analysis, we could conclude that A. chinensis (Retz.) Rosc. was close to Alpinia oxyphylla in Zingiberaceae.