Table 1.

The basic characteristics of three Cardiocrinum chloroplast genomes.

Characteristics	C. giganteum	C. cathayanum	C. cordatum
Clean reads	16,593,274	17,071,940	16,590,680
Average read length (bp)	125	125	125
Number of contigs	26,859	17,157	20,859
Total length of contigs (bp)	11,547,060	6,383,866	8,245,296
N50 length of contigs (bp)	391	351	366
Total cpDNA size (bp)	152,653	152,415	152,410
LSC length (bp)	82,344	82,368	82,186
SSC length (bp)	17,309	17,319	17,344
IR length (bp)	26,500	26,364	26,440
Total CDS length (bp)	72,870	72,201	72,846
Total tRNA length (bp)	2879	2880	2881
Total rRNA length	9046	9046	9050
Total GC content (%)	37.1	37.1	37.1
LSC	34.9	34.9	34.9
SSC	30.8	30.9	30.9
IR	42.5	42.5	42.5
Total number of genes	132	132	132
Protein-coding genes	78	78	78
rRNAs genes	4	4	4
tRNAs genes	30	30	30
Duplicated genes	20	20	20