show Abstracthide AbstractEscallonia (Escalloniaceae) belongs to the Escalloniales, a diverse clade of flowering plants with impressive morphological and ecological diversity and are widely distributed across three biodiversity hotspots in the Neotropics. To shed light on the genomic substrate of this radiation, the phylogenetic placement of the Escalloniales, and generate useful data for comparative evolutionary genomics across flowering plants, we have produced and annotated draft genomes for two unrelated Escallonia species.