Features: colonies are bushes. The branches are tapered and of a thickness exceeding 25 mm. The axial corallites are small and tubular. The radial corallites vary in size, sometimes alternating in vertical rows and are large and significant, increase in length by moving down along the branches of the colony.
Color: colonies are very colorful, usually a mix of cream, blue, purple, brown and yellow, with the end of the branches of coral and cream color purple, a color shared with A. valid, and A. nana.
Similar species: A. valid, which has smaller radial corallites that do not increase in size moving toward the bottom of the branches, and A. gemmifera , which is typed and whose distal corallites were tubular and not cupped.
Habitat: clear of the reef areas, especially in the upper and outer.
Wild: common in the Pacific, uncommon in the Indian Ocean.
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