Table 1. Sequence characteristics of ITS2, matK andrbcLa in selected medicinal species of Fabaceae and Poaceae.

	Fabaceae			Poaceae
	ITS2	matK	rbcLa	ITS2	matK	rbcLa
Universality of primers	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Percentage PCR success (%)	85	71	100	100	100	100
Percentage sequencing success (%)	100	100	100	100	100	100
No. of species (No. of individuals)	7(21)	7(21)	7(21)	3(9)	3(9)	3(9)
No. of no sequence/singleton species	1	2	0	0	0	0
Aligned sequence length (bp)	360	844	553	365	772	553
Parsimony-Informative sites (bp)	200	98	43	106	27	16
Variable sites (bp)	209	99	44	106	27	17
Average interspecific distance (%)	0.35	0.07	0.03	0.26	0.02	0.02
Average intraspecific distance (%)	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00