Complete plastome sequence of Paeonia lactiflora Pall. (Paeoniaceae: Saxifragales)

Paeonia lactiflora has been listed as an Endangered species in Russian Federation. The complete plastome was assembled from Next-Generation Sequencing data. It is 152,747 bp in length. It consists of a pair of Inverted Repeat regions (25,651 bp), separated by a small single copy region of 17,033 bp and a large single copy region of 84,412 bp. The plastome encoded 128 genes, including 83 protein coding genes, 37 tRNA, eight rRNA genes, four pseudogenes, and is characterized by loss of the rpl32 and infA genes. Phylogenetic analysis of Paeoniaceae plastomes revealed that P. lactiflora clustered with Eurasian peonies (section Paeoniae).