Characters: Colonies are submassive to encrusting. The surface is covered with tuberculae, which may be fused. Corallites are very small, immersed and evenly distributed on and between tuberculae.
Colour: Usually dark brown or green.
Similar Species: Montipora hoffmeisteri and M. cryptus. See also M. millepora, which has smaller corallites which are seldom found in tuberculae.
Habitat: Upper reef slopes.
Abundance: Common in the Coral Sea, rare and inconspicuous elsewhere.
Taxonomic References: Wells (1954); Veron and Wallace (1984); Veron (2000a);
Identification Guides: Veron (1986a); Pillay, Terashima, Venkatasami et al. (2002); Turak and DeVantier (2011b);
