The first mitogenome of Lauraceae (Cinnamomum chekiangense)

•The first reported mitochondrial genome (Cinnamomum chekiangense) of the Lauraceae family.•The mitogenome of C. chekiangense retains almost all of the ancestral protein-coding genes and has the highest RNA editing number in angiosperms.•Both of the plastid and mitochondrial phylogenetic trees support the magnoliids as a sister group of monocots and eudicots.