Characters: Colonies are submassive, the surface being irregular mounds covered by irregular tuberculae. There is complete continuity in size between the mounds and tuberculae. Corallites are distributed irregularly although they are less common in tuberculae. The coenosteum is irregularly coarse.
Colour: Mottled brown and white.
Similar Species: Montipora efflorescens, which may have a similar mounded surface but has extensive development of papillae.
Habitat: Shallow reef environments.
Abundance: Rare.
Taxonomic Note: Pacific Ocean records may be a different species characterised by larger corallites and shorter septa.
Taxonomic References: Veron (2000a);
Identification Guides: Pillay, Terashima, Venkatasami et al. (2002);
