Characters: Colonies consist of dense thickets of short cylindrical branches which may form extensive stands. Axial corallites are small. Radial corallites are irregular in size and shape; exsert corallites have prominent lower lips.
Colour: Greyish-brown with white branch tips and white branch coenosteum. This colouration is only very distinctive in Japan.
Similar Species: Acropora akajimensis and A. donei.
Habitat: Shallow reef slopes, submerged reef flats and shallow rocky foreshores.
Abundance: May be locally dominant in Japan, rare elsewhere.
Taxonomic References: Veron (2000a); Wallace, Done and Muir (2012);
Identification Guides: Nishihira and Veron (1995); Pillay, Terashima, Venkatasami et al. (2002); Turak and DeVantier (2011b);
