Species group: echinata. Description. Colony outline: indeterminate, predominantly hispidose. Branches: tertiary branching order present; length: 25 – 50 mm; diameter: 2.5 – 4.9 mm, 50 / 50 axial / radial, terete; radial crowding: not touching; axial / radial ratio: <1: 10. Axial corallites: two synapticular rings; not porous; outer diameter 1.5 – 2.0 mm; inner diameter 0.4 – 0.8 mm; primary septa to 1 / 3 R. Radial corallites: medium; two synapticular rings; one size or graded; inner wall developed; shape: appressed tubular; openings: oval-rounded; primary septa absent. Coenosteum: same on and between radials: dense spinules; spinule shape: elaborate.
Sumber: Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland