Characters: Colonies are encrusting to submassive. Corallites are irregular in shape, 3-6 millimetres diameter. Septa are few and highly contorted, with irregular teeth. The paliform crown is weakly developed.
Colour: Pale brown, sometimes with green oral discs.
Similar Species: Favites micropentagona, which has corallites of similar size but with a uniform shape. See also Platygyra yaeyamaensis which has larger corallites forming valleys.
Habitat: Upper reef slopes.
Abundance: Uncommon to rare.
Taxonomic References: Veron (2000a);
Identification Guides: Nishihira and Veron (1995); Turak and DeVantier (2011b);
