Annotated plastome of the temperate woody vine Muehlenbeckia australis (G.Forst.) Meisn. (Polygonaceae).

We assembled the plastome of the temperate, Southern Hemisphere liana Muehlenbeckia australis from high throughput sequencing data (paired-end Illumina reads) generated from total genomic DNA sequencing libraries. M. australis' chloroplast genome sequence (GenBank: MG604297) is 163,484 bp in length and composed of long single copy (LSC; 88,166 bp) and short single copy (SSC; 13,486 bp) regions flanked by inverted repeats (IR; 30,916 bp each) typical for angiosperms. The plastome includes 131 genes comprising 83 protein-coding genes, 37 transfer RNA genes, eight ribosomal RNA genes, two possible pseudogenes, psbL and rpl23 with internal stop codons, and truncated repeats of ndhF and rps19 at IR boundaries.