Introduction.

      S. tetrasperma (Champ. ex Benth.) Druce flowers every year (Hu et al., 2011), thus can be treated as an “evolutionary mutant” of S. biocullata and other plietesial Strobilanthes species (Kakishima, 2019; Hu and Saedler, 2007) to study perennial monocarpic flowering.

      Recently, we sequenced the full-length and strand-specific transcriptome of S. tetrasperma, using PacBio Iso-seq and Illumina RNA-seq technology, which resulted in 111.9 Gb Iso-seq reads, and 185 Gb RNA-seq reads from 9 tissues including leaves and shoot apical tissues in two stages of developmental. The sampled plants were collected and transplanted from Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China, to Kunming Botanical Garden (KBG) on the campus of KIB-CAS.