Characters: Colonies are fine prostrate branches which divide at irregular intervals. Axial corallites are blunt. Radial corallites are widely spaced, short, appressed and nariform at branch bases becoming tubular towards their ends.
Colour: Pale brown.
Similar Species: Acropora torihalimeda.
Habitat: Protected lower reef slopes.
Abundance: Locally common.
Taxonomic References: Wells (1985); Wallace (1999); Veron (2000a); Wallace, Done and Muir (2012);
