Characters: Colonies consist of bottlebrush branches which may form a loose thicket but which are usually long and distinct. Branchlets and sub-branchlets are compact and of uniform shape. Axial corallites intergrade with radial corallites and are long and tubular. Small radial corallites are pocket-shaped.
Colour: Grey-brown.
Similar Species: Acropora navini, which has shorter thicker truncated radial corallites. See also A. turaki and A. echinata which have longer corallites.
Habitat: Shallow reef slopes and fringing reefs.
Abundance: Common.
Taxonomic References: Wallace and Wolstenholme (1998); Wallace (1999); Veron (2000a); Wallace, Done and Muir (2012);
