Complete chloroplast genome data of Ranunculus membranaceus (Ranunculaceae), an important medicinal plant species

The perennial alpine herb Ranunculus membranaceus (Ra-nunculaceae) has significant medicinal value. The complete chloroplast genome of R. membranaceus was sequenced by high-throughput Illumina sequencing Platform Illumina No-vaSeq 60 0 0. The circular genome is 156,028 bp in size, in-cluding two inverted repeats (IRs) of 25,361 bp, a large single-copy (LSC) region of 85,491 bp, and a small single -copy (SSC) region of 19,815 bp. A total of 128 genes were annotated, namely 84 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 36 tRNA genes, and eight rRNA genes. Two phylogenetic trees of 18 species of the tribe Ranunculeae species were constructed with Meconopsis punicea as the outgroup based on the whole chloroplast genomes and the concatenated sequence of PCGs, respectively. Phylogeny showed that R. membranaceus was closely related to R. yunnanensis. These data enrich knowl-edge of Ranunculaceae genetics and will contribute to fur-ther studies of R. membranaceus in molecular breeding, genetic transformation, species identification, genetic engineer-ing and phylogenetic research.& COPY; 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )