Rheum tibeticum chloroplast reference genome

Rheum tibeticum (Polygonaceae) is one of the genuine medicinal materials in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China. Here we report the first chloroplast (cp) genome of R. tibeticum using Illumina HiSeq X platform. The length of its complete cp genome is 161,820 bp, containing four sub-regions; a large single copy region (LSC) of 87,086 bp and a small single copy region (SSC) of 12,814 bp are separated by a pair of inverted repeat regions (IRs) of 30,960 bp. The complete cp genome of R. tibeticum contains 130 genes, including 85 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes, and 8 rRNA genes. The overall GC content of the cp genome is 37.4%.