Rani, AlkaJugale, SmitaBast, Felix2024-01-212024-08-132024-01-212024-08-132021-06-02370004610.1007/s43538-021-00021-whttp://10.2.3.109/handle/32116/3138India harbors the wealthiest biodiversity of mangroves, yet the utilization of sequence-based DNA barcodes for the characterization of mangrove diversity from the Indian coastal region is needed to be explored. In the present study, we assessed DNA barcode-based phylogenetics of mangroves from Sundarbans Delta and Kerala at the ITS locus of the nuclear genome. The phylogenetic analysis was performed using Bayesian inference, which proved to resolve the evolutionary affinities effectively. Our study presents mangroves� systematic assessment with total 6 DNA sequences generated from 5 genera, and the first DNA barcode of Volkameria inermis and Avicennia marina from Payyanur Kerala, Avicennia alba and Suaeda maritima from the Sundarbans Delta was reported from ITS locus. The phylogenetic assessment confirmed that Avicennia belongs to the family Acanthaceae and placed the Volkameria inermis from Payyanur and Clerodendrum eriophyllum under the same monophyletic clade. � 2021, Indian National Science Academy.en-USDNA BarcodingITS1-ITS2MangrovesPhylogeneticpp-Posterior probabilitySundarbans deltaArticlehttps://link.springer.com/10.1007/s43538-021-00021-w