Table 1.

Characteristics of chloroplast genomes from five species in the genus Pogostemon.

Genome Feature	P. plectranthoides	P. septentrionalis	P. yatabeanus	P. stellatus	P. cablin “Gaoyao”
Genome size	152,430	152,514	152,707	151,824	152,461
LSC length	83,514	83,614	83,791	83,012	83,553
IR length	25,666	25,665	25,674	25,644	25,662
SSC length	17,584	17,570	17,568	17,524	17,584
Total coding length	91,424	91,445	91,132	91,135	91,442
Protein-coding length	79,500	79,521	79,275	79,278	79,518
rRNA-coding length	9064	9064	9064	9064	9064
tRNA-coding length	2860	2860	2793	2793	2860
Total GC content (%)	38.3	38.2	38.2	38.2	38.2
LSC GC content (%)	36.4	36.4	36.2	36.3	36.4
IR GC content (%)	43.4	43.4	43.4	43.4	43.4
SSC GC content (%)	32.1	32.1	32	32.1	32.1
Total number of genes (total/different)	132/114	132/114	132/114	132/114	132/114
Number of duplicated genes in IR	18	18	18	18	18
Number of genes with introns (with 3 exons)	18(2)	18(2)	18(2)	18(2)	18(2)
Number of protein-coding genes (total/in IR)	80/7	80/7	80/7	80/7	80/7
Number of tRNA genes (total/in IR)	30/7	30/7	30/7	30/7	30/7
Number of rRNA genes (total/in IR)	4/4	4/4	4/4	4/4	4/4

LSC—large single-copy region; SSC—small single-copy region; IR—inverted repeats region.