Features: colonies have highly variable morphology, thick bushes and platforms. And 'this continuously variable in morphology and size between the axial and radial corallites both of which can be tubular or spherical, with very thick boundaries. The axial corallites tubular radial corallites often do not have on one side and nothing protruding corallites to the other. All corals are rounded and smooth.
Color: usually blue or brown; the axial corallites are white.
Similar species: A. rosaria and A. aprressa , A. coraliniana and A. granulosa axial corallites are more elongated.
Wild: upper zone of the reef, but is present in many areas of the reef.
Abundance: Common Indus-central Pacific.
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