Characters: Colonies are corymbose, cushion-like or form tables up to approximately one metre across. They have prostrate horizontal branches with short upright branchlets. Axial, incipient axial and radial corallites intergrade; all are small, tubular and sharp edged. Branchlets tend to have a bottlebrush arrangement of radial corallites.
Colour: Pale brown, blue (which may photograph pink) or grey.
Similar Species: Acropora fragilis, which has smaller branchlets and peripheral radial corallites with nariform openings. See also A. desalwii and A. microclados.
Habitat: Shallow protected reef environments.
Abundance: Uncommon.
Taxonomic References: Wallace (1997); Wallace (1999); Veron (2000a); Wallace, Done and Muir (2012);