The chloroplast genome provides insight into the evolution of plant species. We de novo assembled and annotated chloroplast genomes of the first representatives of four genera representing three subfamilies: Lasia spinosa (Lasioideae), Stylochaeton bogneri, Zamioculcas zamiifolia (Zamioculcadoideae), and Orontium aquaticum (Orontioideae), and performed comparative genomics using the plastomes. The size of the chloroplast genomes ranged from 163,770-169,982 bp. These genomes comprise 114 unique genes, including 80 protein-coding, 4 rRNA, and 30 tRNA genes. These genomes exhibited high similarities in codon usage, amino acid frequency, RNA editing sites, and microsatellites. The junctions JSB (IRb/SSC) and JSA (SSC/IRa) are highly variable, as is oligonucleotide repeats content among the genomes. The patterns of inverted repeats contraction and expansion were shown to be homoplasious and therefore unsuitable for phylogenetic analyses. Signatures of positive selection were shown for several genes in S. bogneri. This study is a valuable addition to the evolutionary history of chloroplast genome structure in Araceae.Many other types of mutational events also take place within chloroplast genomes, including insertion-deletion (indels), substitutions, tandem repeat variations and variations in number and type of oligonucleotide repeats [11,[18][19][20]. The single parent inheritance of the chloroplast genome -paternally in some gymnosperms and maternally in most angiospermsalong with adequate levels of polymorphism make it suitable for studies of evolution, domestication, phylogeography, population genetics, and phylogenetics [7,10,11,[21][22][23][24].Araceae is an ancient and large monocot plant family, comprising 114 genera and 3750 species [25]. This family is subdivided into eight subfamilies: Gymnostachydoideae, Orotioideae, Lemnoideae, Pothoideae, Monsteroideae, Lasioideae, Zamioculcadoideae, and Aroideae [22,26,27]. Advancements in next generation sequencing have made genomic resources available for species of Lemnoideae [28], Monsteroideae [18,29,30], and Aroideae [10,31,32]; chloroplast genomes of Symplocarpus renifolius Schott ex Tzvelev and S. nipponicus Makino of Orotioideae have also been reported [33,34]. Previous studies provide insight into some unique evolutionary events of chloroplast genomes in Araceae, including IR contraction and expansion, gene rearrangement, and positive selection [10,18,28]. Moreover, loss/pseudogenation of some important genes are also reported in the genus Amorphophallus Blume (Aroideae) [17]. Nevertheless, data for the chloroplast genome ≥ 10, dinucleotide ≥ 5, trinucleotide ≥ 4, tetranucleotide, pentanucleotide and hexanucleotide ≥ 3. The forward and reverse oligonucleotide repeats were determined with length ≥ 14 bp with 1 editing site, initially. Later, we removed all repeats that contained mismatches from the analyses and left only those repeat pairs that exhibited 100% similarities, following Abdullah et al. 2020 [50].We determined transition substitutions (Ts), transvers...