Characters: Colonies form perforated plates with short branches, or are cushion-shaped, or form extensive corymbose bushes. Branches are 7-9 millimetres thick, do not taper and have short branchlets towards their bases. Axial corallites and incipient axial corallites are prominent. Radial corallites are rounded, bead-like and appressed, and approximately arranged in rows.
Colour: Almost always a uniform creamy-brown with yellow axial corallites.
Similar Species: Acropora bushyensis, which has thinner branches and outward facing open radial corallites.
Habitat: Upper reef slopes, especially those exposed to wave action or currents.
Abundance: Common, especially in the western Indian Ocean.
Taxonomic References: Veron and Wallace (1984); Wallace (1999); Veron (2000a); Wallace, Done and Muir (2012);
Identification Guides: Veron (1986a); Nishihira and Veron (1995);
