Characters: Colonies are thickets or small clumps
with branches consisting primarily of extremely
long tapered axial corallites. Incipient axial
corallites forming branchlets ...
Characters: Colonies are horizontal plates,
sometimes tiered. Plates are composed of fused
branches and are almost solid. Branchlets occur
irregularly and are widely spaced. A ...
Characters: Colonies are bushy or have thick
bottlebrush-like branches. Branchlets and
sub-branchlets are compact and of uniform shape.
Axial and incipient axial corallites in ...
Characters: Colonies have large upright
cylindrical branches and may form stands more than
5 metres across. Horizontally fused basal branches
are only developed in shallow wat ...
Characters: Colonies are digitate. Branches are
thick, tapering to a small axial corallite. Small
branchlets or incipient axial corallites usually
occur at the base of main br ...
Characters: Colonies are encrusting plates or
thick ridges, columns or branches. Branches are
usually upright, but are commonly horizontal or
irregular in shape, depending on ...
Characters: Colonies may be large (over 4 metres
across) and form dense thickets of frequently
dividing branches. Branches are 7-9 millimetres
thick and slightly tapered. Axia ...
Characters: Colonies are flat or hemispherical and
mostly phaceloid with one to three centres per
branch. They seldom exceed 0.5 metres across
except in the Red Sea where they ...
Characters: Colonies are large horizontal
corymbose plates, usually with well defined
margins. Branches are closely compact and have
short branchlets which are vertical at the ...
Characters: Colonies consist of dense thickets
usually less than one metre across. Branches are
short and cylindrical and divide at frequent
intervals. Axial corallites are sm ...
Characters: Colonies are large horizontal tables
or irregular clusters of horizontal or upright
interlinked contorted branches. Branches are
pointed and have short branchlets ...
Characters: Colonies may be up to one metre across
and consist of wide flat horizontal branches.
These may be very broad and laterally fused to
form a perforated plate. Radial ...
