Characters: Colonies are thin plates, sometimes in tiers. Surfaces of plates are smooth or undulating.
Colour: Brown with white polyps.
Similar Species: Porites astreoides where forming thin plates, which is distinguished by having weakly developed paliform lobes and by colour.
Habitat: Reef slopes.
Abundance: Locally common.
Taxonomic Note: Little known species.
Taxonomic References: Zlatarski (1990); Veron (2000a); Venera-Pontón, Reyes and Diaz-Pulido (2008);
Identification Guides: Humann (2002);