The complete chloroplast genome of Atractylodes macrocephala Koidz. (Asteraceae)

Atractylodes macrocephala Koidz. is a traditional medicinal plant, distributing in China, Korea, and Japan. Here, we assembled and characterized the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of A. macrocephala using Illumina sequencing data. The plastome is 153,256 bp in length, consisting of a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) of 25,146 bp, separated by a large single-copy (LSC) region of 84,290 bp and small single-copy (SSC) region of 18,674 bp. A total of 125 genes were identified from the genome, including 88 protein-coding genes, 29 tRNA genes, and eight rRNA genes. The overall GC content of the genome is 37.7%. The phylogenetic analysis based on 42 complete cp sequences revealed that A. macrocephala is closely related to A. chinensis and A. lancea.