| cp | Complete chloroplast |
| IR | Inverted Repeat |
| lSC | Large Single Copy |
| SSC | Small Single Copy |
| Pi | Nucleotide variability |
| SSR | Simple Sequence Repeat |
| PIC | Potentially Informative Character |
| ML | Maximum likelihood |
| BI | Bayesian Inference |
| MCMC | Markov chain Monte Carlo |