Characters: Colonies are partly or totally encrusting laminae. Central parts may be hillocky and submassive, peripheral parts may be contorted or form whorls and tiers. Corallites have toothed rather than beaded costae. There are no paliform lobes.
Colour: Brown, green and red are most common, usually with red or green oral discs. Often mottled.
Similar Species: Echinophyllia patula. See also E. orpheensis. Resembles Oxypora lacera underwater.
Habitat: Most reef environments especially lower reef slopes, lagoons and fringing reefs.
Abundance: Common.
Taxonomic Note: A species complex.
Taxonomic References: Veron and Pichon (1980); Veron (2000a);
Identification Guides: Veron (1986a); Sheppard and Sheppard (1991); Nishihira and Veron (1995); Pillay, Terashima, Venkatasami et al. (2002); Chan, Choi, McCorry et al. (2005); Pichon, Benzoni, Chaineau et al. (2010); Turak and DeVantier (2011b);
