Characters: Colonies are massive and usually small. Corallites are crowded and circular. Septa are thickened, exsert or ragged, with large teeth near the wall. They have well developed paliform lobes forming a crown around the columella.
Colour: Usually brown or grey or mottled, with walls and calices of contrasting colours.
Similar Species: Favia albidus. Readily distinguished from F. pallida and F. speciosa by the exsert or ragged septa and paliform crown.
Habitat: Upper reef slopes.
Abundance: Sometimes common.
Taxonomic References: Wijsman-Best (1972); Veron, Pichon and Wijsman-Best (1977);
Identification Guides: Randall and Myers (1983); Veron (1986a); 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);
