The complete chloroplast genome of Vitex trifolia L. (Lamiaceae)

The three-leaved chaste tree (Vitex trifolia) is a medicinal and ornamental plant widely distributed from East Africa to the Pacific but has no complete chloroplast genome sequence. We assembled and characterized the V. trifolia accession from the germplasm collection of the Institute of Crop Science, University of the Philippines Los Baños. The complete plastome sequence is 154,444-bp long with 131 coding genes comprising 87 mRNA genes, 36 tRNA genes, and 8 rRNA genes. A phylogenetic analysis of the assembled genome, together with nine other Lamiaceae species, identified V. rotundifolia as its closest relative with available complete cpDNA sequence. The clustering also supports the genotypic similarity of the species belonging to trifolia group of the genus Vitex.