Table 2.

Statistics on the basic features of the chloroplast genomes of the three Stephania species

Characteristics	Stephania tetrandra	Stephania japonica	Stephania kwangsiensis
Accession number	MT849286	KU204903.1	MN654112.1
Total length (bp)	157,725	157,719	156,624
LSC length (bp)	89,468	88,693	87,759
SSC length (bp)	19,685	20,346	20,169
IR length (bp)	48,572	48,680	48,696
Total Number of Genes	134	132	132
Coding Genes	87	85	85
rRNA Genes	8	8	8
tRNA Genes	37	37	37
Pesudo genes	2	2	2
GC content
Total (%)	38.18	38.23	38.44
LSC (%)	36.31	36.42	36.66
SSC (%)	33.00	32.94	33.40
IR (%)	43.73	43.75	43.76

LSC Large single copy, SSC Small single copy, IR Inverted repeat, GC Guanine and Cytosine