Abstract
Chloranthus spicatus is an important medicinal and horticultural plant in China. In this study, the complete chloroplastid genome was assembled and annotated, its full-length of 158,758 bp, include large single-copy (LSC) region of 88,408 bp, small single-copy (SSC) region of 18,444 bp, a pair of invert repeats (IR) regions of 26,133 bp. Plastid genome contains 130 genes, 85 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes, and eight rRNA genes. The phylogenetic analyses based on the complete chloroplast genome sequence provided solid evidence that C. spicatus has a close relationship with C. erectus and C. japonicus. The chloroplast genome presented here will provide useful information for the phylogenetic and evolutionary studies of Chloranthus species.