Characters: Colonies may be several metres across and consist of upright or prostrate tangles of mostly straight branches. Branches are exceptionally thin and delicate. They divide infrequently. Axial corallites are long and tubular. Radial corallites are mostly small and tubular to pocket-shaped, with sharp edges.
Colour: Pale brown.
Similar Species: Acropora kirstyae, which has thicker branches and corallites with rounded edges and A. derawanensis, which has more irregular branches. Readily mistaken for Anacropora underwater.
Habitat: With Acropora derawanensis in shallow reef environments protected from wave action.
Abundance: Rare.
Taxonomic References: Veron (2000a); Veron (2002a); Wallace, Done and Muir (2012);
