Characters: Polyps are circular, up to 160 millimetres diameter and generally flat. Septa are densely packed. Septal teeth and costal spines are small, giving septa a smooth appearance. Tentacular lobes are not formed or are minute. The undersurface is usually without pits.
Colour: Usually brown, sometimes with a contrasting perimeter.
Similar Species: Fungia repanda, which has coarser septal teeth, pits between the costae and is usually more arched. See also F. spinifer and F. scabra.
Habitat: Reef slopes and lagoons.
Abundance: Common.
Taxonomic Note: Species has been found to occur together with similar Fungia species. Called Lithophyllon concinna by Gittenberger, Reijnen and Hoeksema (2011) from molecular data. However, Lithophyllon is colonial with distinctive generic-level characters.
Taxonomic References: Veron and Pichon (1980); Hoeksema (1989a); Veron (2000a);
Identification Guides: Veron (1986a); Sheppard and Sheppard (1991); Nishihira and Veron (1995); Turak and DeVantier (2011b);
