Probable Base Number for Genus x = 10
C. macrocephalum n=10; 2n= ca 10II + 10 I; n=20-22; 2n=20, 2n=40 ref Turner et al. 1967; Turner et al. 1979; Robinson et al. 1989; Dematteis et al. 2007
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