The complete chloroplast genome of Camellia vietnamensis, an economic shrub producing edible seed oil

Camellia vietnamensis is an economic woody plant producing high-value edible oils, which is commonly found and cultivated in south areas of China. To provide genetic information for future genetic research, we have sequenced and assembled the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of C. vietnamensis based on the Illumina Hiseq platform. The total genome size is 161,958?bp in length with 37% GC, which contains a large single copy (LSC, 86,657?bp) region, a small single copy (SSC, 13,347?bp) region, and a pair of inverted repeat (IRs, 30,977?bp) regions. It is comprised of 81 protein-coding genes, 44 transfer RNAs and 4 ribosomal RNAs. To obtain the phylogeny relationship, the cp genome of C. vietnamensis has been compared with other Camellia species; the results indicate that C. vietnamensis is closely related to C. taliensis. This study provides fundamental information of C. vietnamensis cp genome, and it is valuable to the molecular phylogenetic and genetic diversity analyses in future.