The complete chloroplast genome of the medicinally important plant <i>Plumbago zeylanica</i> L. (plumbaginaceae) and phylogenetic analysis

<i>Plumbago zeylanica</i> L. 1753 is a medicinally-important herb in family Plumbaginaceae. In this study, we assembled and reported the complete chloroplast genome of <i>P. zeylanica</i>. The plastome of <i>P. zeylanica</i> was 169,178 bp, including a large single-copy region of 92,135 bp, a small single-copy region (SSC) of 13,455 bp and a pair of inverted repeat regions (IRs) of 31,794 bp. It contained 124 genes, including 79 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes and eight rRNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis showed that <i>P. zeylanica</i> formed a close relationship with <i>P. auriculata</i> in <i>Plumbago.</i> The first complete chloroplast genome report of <i>P. zeylanica</i> providing an opportunity to explore the genetic diversity, and would be also helpful in the species identification and conservation.