| Summary: | Rhus typhina, commonly called staghorn sumac, is native to North America and is widely planted as an ornamental deciduous shrub all over the temperate region. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome (plastome) of R. typhina was determined using genome-skimming method. The complete plastome of staghorn sumac was 160,204 bp in length with a canonical quadripartite structure, including a large single-copy region of 87,789 bp, a small single-copy region of 19,319 bp, and a pair of inverted repeats regions of 26,548 bp each. A total of 113 unique genes were annotated in this plastome, including 79 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes, and 4 rRNA genes. The overall guanine-cytosine (GC) content was 37.8%. As shown in the ML phylogenetic tree, R. typhina was closely related to R. chinensis, and Rhus was sister to Pistacia within Anacardiaceae famliy.
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