Characters: Colonies are irregular clumps, columns and plates. Corallites are mostly immersed, with fine but distinct walls. The coenosteum is coarse. Low tuberculae are sometimes present.
Colour: Uniform brown, blue (which may photograph pink) or purple, sometimes with pale plate margins.
Similar Species: Montipora spongodes. See also M. turtlensis and M. turgescens.
Habitat: Subtidal mud flats and in other inshore habitats.
Abundance: Especially common in high latitude locations of Australia.
Taxonomic Note: A species complex.
Taxonomic References: Veron and Wallace (1984); Veron (1992); Veron (2000a);
Identification Guides: Veron (1986a); Nishihira and Veron (1995); Pillay, Terashima, Venkatasami et al. (2002); Chan, Choi, McCorry et al. (2005); Turak and DeVantier (2011b);
