TABLE 1.

Statistics of sampled transcriptomes.

Lineages	Species	Vouchers	No. of raw data	N50 (unigene)	No. of unigene
Polygonateae	Polygonatum cyrtonema Hua	Nie 5439	34,299,887	1,161	55,874
	P. zanlanscianense Pamp.	Nie 5440	31,928,107	1,184	57,181
	P. sibiricum Redouté	Nie 5450	23,507,559	1,145	49,732
	Disporopsis aspera (Hua) Engl.	Nie 5438	42,409,644	1,059	61,155
	Maianthemum japonicum (A. Gray) La Frankie	Nie 5451	25,027,168	1,078	52,653
Convallarieae	Aspidistra fenghuangensis K.Y. Lang	Nie 5442	30,779,512	1,131	57,501
	Tupistra chinensis Baker	Nie 5443	31,245,232	873	100,199
Ophiopogoneae	Liriope platyphylla F.T. Wang & Tang	Nie 5441	29,260,035	1,077	68,450
Nolinoids (Nolinaceae)	Beaucarnea recurvata Lem.	Nie 5446	23,863,397	915	100,217
	Dasylirion longissimum Lem.	Nie 5447	24,915,810	890	100,618
Ruscoids (Ruscaceae s.s.)	Ruscus aculeatus L.	Nie 5448	24,739,871	1,098	59,645
Dracaenoids (Dracaenaceae)	Sansevieria trifasciata Prain	Nie 5445	30,449,869	1,147	60,507
	Dracaena angustifolia Roxb.	Nie 5444	28,256,382	1,139	60,935
Eriospermaceae	Eriospermum lancifolium Jacq.	Nie 5449	23,675,661	1,177	55,412
–	Theropogon pallidus Maxim.	Nie 5452	21,598,854	1,144	59,484

All specimens are deposited in Jishou University (JIU).