The complete chloroplast genome of Vaccinium fragile (Vacciniaceae), a shrub endemic to China

Abstract Vaccinium fragile, an endemic species in China, is a plant of the family Vacciniaceae. It is an evergreen shrubby tree distributed in Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Tibet province of China. The chloroplast (cp) genome of V. fragile is 169,480？bp in size containing 123 unique genes, including 8 rRNA genes, 38 tRNA genes, and 77 protein-coding genes (PCGs). Phylogenetic analysis exhibited that both V. macrocarpon and V. fragile were phylogenetically closer to Arbutus unedo than other taxa in this study