Characters: Colonies are wide flat plates and tables. Branches are thin, finely structured and widely spaced forming a delicate lattice network. Branchlets are fine and strongly inclined on the plate surface. Axial and incipient axial corallites are indistinguishable. Radial corallites are cup-shaped and are not arranged in rosettes.
Colour: Pale branches with darker corallites.
Similar Species: Acropora cytherea, which has more compact branches and more upright branchlets. See also A. hyacinthus, which has thicker and more compact branches and radial corallites arranged in a rosette.
Habitat: Upper reef slopes.
Abundance: Uncommon.
Taxonomic Note: Readily recognised in the field but not in collections. Wallace (1999) considered this species to be a potential junior synonym of Acropora hyacinthus. However, it is closer to A. cytherea in the typical, single-tiered tabular colony-form.
Taxonomic References: Nemenzo (1971); Veron (2000a);
Identification Guides: Turak and DeVantier (2011b);