Characters: Colonies have prostrate main branches with bottlebrush-like secondary branching producing lobed or cushion-like colonies. Axial corallites are large and rounded. Radial corallites are short, with thick walls.
Colour: Dull greenish-grey or brown with pale brown or orange branch tips.
Similar Species: Acropora samoensis, which has shorter branches and distinctive axial corallites. See also A. digitifera.
Habitat: Upper reef slopes 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);
