Characters: Colonies form bottlebrush thickets with upright or prostrate main branches. Axial and incipient axial corallites are short and tapered. Radial corallites are small and pocket-shaped. All corallites have thick walls.
Colour: Uniform pale brown or cream, rarely blue or mauve. Extremeties are white.
Similar Species: Acropora subglabra, which forms more open branches and has less numerous radial corallite with thinner walls. See also A. longicyathus and A. elseyi.
Habitat: Deep water or protected reef backs and lagoons.
Abundance: Common.
Taxonomic References: Wallace (1978); Veron and Wallace (1984); Wallace (1999); Veron (2000a); Wallace, Done and Muir (2012);
Identification Guides: Veron (1986a); Nishihira and Veron (1995); Turak and DeVantier (2011b);
