Characters: Colonies are submassive or laminar. Corallites are small; some exsert, some immersed. Corallites are separated by papillae or tuberculae of about one corallite diameter.
Colour: Usually dull brown or green, but may be bright blue (which may photograph pink or purple). Tips of papillae are often distinctively coloured.
Similar species: Montipora monasteriata, which has coenosteum tuberculae.
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