Stability and Accuracy Assessment of Identification of Traditional Chinese Materia Medica Using DNA Barcoding: A Case Study on Flos Lonicerae Japonicae

Table 2

Sequence characteristics of ITS2 and psbA-trnH of Flos Lonicerae Japonicae and its related species.

Sequence characteristics	ITS2	psbA-trnH
Length range in Flos Lonicerae Japonicae (bp)	228	339
Length in all taxa (bp)	228-229	332–356
Average of GC content in Flos Lonicerae Japonicae (%)	75.4	29.5
Average of GC content in all taxa (%)	73.9	29.6
No. of variable sites in Flos Lonicerae Japonicae	1	0
No. of variable sites in all taxa	14	10