Characters: Colonies consist of flat, highly fused, basal branches with irregular upright branchlets. Commonly forms tiered plates.The entire colony is sometimes a single solid plate and sometimes upward branchlets are not developed. Axial corallites are similar to radial corallites. Radial corallites have wide openings and thick lips.
Colour: Brown, cream or green.
Similar Species: Acropora solitaryensis. See also A. branchi, A. orbicularis, A. retusa, A. arabensis and A. clathrata.
Habitat: Rocky foreshores of subtropical locations.
Abundance: Common in subtropical locations, rare elsewhere.
Taxonomic References: Veron and Wallace (1984); Wallace (1999); Veron (2000a); Wallace, Done and Muir (2012);
Identification Guides: Veron (1986a); Nishihira and Veron (1995); Chan, Choi, McCorry et al. (2005); Turak and DeVantier (2011b);
