Characteristics and phylogenetic analysis of the complete chloroplast genome of <i>Rubus swinhoei</i> Hance 1866 from the family Rosaceae

<i>Rubus swinhoei</i> Hance is an important plant owing to its medicinal root and edible fruit, and extensively distributed in China. In this study, we reported the complete chloroplast genome of <i>R. swinhoei</i>. The chloroplast genome was 156,335 bp in size with the overall GC content of 37.15%, having a circular and quadripartite structure, which contained a large single-copy (LSC) and a small single-copy (SSC) regions of 85,897 bp and 18,858 bp separated by a pair of 25,790 bp inverted repeat (IR) regions. The complete chloroplast genome comprised 131 unique genes of which 86 and 37 were protein-coding genes and tRNA genes, respectively, and also eight rRNA genes. The phylogenetic analysis revealed that <i>R. swinhoei</i> was closely related to <i>R. kawakamii</i>. The genome information reported in this paper will be beneficial for further investigation on the evolution of this species.