Characters: Colonies are massive. Corallites are compacted together, often irregularly projecting and irregular in outline, with large calices up to 10 millimetres deep. Paliform lobes are absent.
Colour: Corallite walls are usually rich brown or red with cream oral discs.
Similar Species: Favia maxima, which has similar sized corallites with conspicuous paliform lobes. Favia maritima has smaller, more exsert, more widely spaced corallites. See also F. vietnamensis.
Habitat: Reef slopes.
Abundance: Rare.
Taxonomic References: Moll and Best (1984); Veron (2000a);
Identification Guides: Nishihira and Veron (1995); Pillay, Terashima, Venkatasami et al. (2002); Chan, Choi, McCorry et al. (2005); Turak and DeVantier (2011b);
