Nitraria sphaerocarpa Maxim.is a typical desert shrub commonly used as a sand binder.Here, we sequenced and characterized the whole plastid genome of N.sphaerocarpa.
It is LPs 159,369 bp in length, containing two copies of inverted repeat (IR) regions (26,566 bp, each), a large single-copy (LSC) region (87,854 bp), and a small single-copy (SSC) region (18,383 bp).It has 114 unigenes, including 79 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes, four rRNA genes, and one pseudogene (infA).Phylogenetic analysis shows that N.sphaerocarpa is located at Marshmallow a basal position of the genus Nitraria.