Features: flat encrusting colonies with short branches, or have cushion-shaped, or bush corymbs. The branches are 7-9 mm thick, not tapered and have small branches that radiate from the base. The corals are prominent axial, radial ones are rounded, tubular and close together, placed in rosettes.
Color: especially cream-brown uniform with yellow axial corallites.
Similar species: A. bushyensis , which has finer branches and the opening of radial corallites facing outward.
Habitat: top of the reef, especially those exposed to waves and currents.
Wild: common, especially in the west Indian Ocean.
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