Features: colonies form clusters brush with the main branches prostrate or facing up. The corals and the axial projections are short and tapered. The radial corallites are small and not very prominent. All corals have thick walls delimiting.
Color: uniform light brown or cream, rarely blue or mauve.
Similar species: A. subglabra , which has branches in more open and radial corallites with fewer walls finest. (See also A. longicyathus and A. Elsey ).
Habitat: shallow waters, the inland areas of the reef and lagoons.
Wild: common.
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