The complete chloroplast genome of Elsholtzia densa var. ianthina (Lamiaceae)

Elsholtzia densa var. ianthina has important medicinal valve and is used as Tibetan medicine. The complete chloroplast genome of E. densa var. ianthina was assembled from Illumina pair-end sequence reads. The whole plastome is 149,118 bp in length and presents a quadripartite structure consisting of two copies of inverted repeat (IR) regions (25,167) separated by a large single copy (LSC) region (81,411 bp) and a small single copy (SSC) region (17,373 bp). The plastome of E. densa var. ianthina encodes a total of 130 genes, including 85 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes and 8 rRNA genes. The overall GC content of E. densa var. ianthina plastome is 37.9%. A maximum likelihood (ML) phylogenetic analysis revealed that E. densa var. ianthina was related to Elsholtziasplendens.