Characters: Colonies are robust and conspicuous, encrusting to submassive. The surface is covered with contorted, irregular, large verrucae. These verrucae are not fused into any pattern. Corallites are large and conspicuous.
Colour: Pale brown or purple.
Similar species: Montipora meandrina, which has smaller corallites and tuberculae. See also M. verrucosa.
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