Characters: Colonies are massive with slightly angular corallites. Corallites have thick, rounded walls. Paliform lobes are weakly developed. Columellae are large. Septal spines may be prominent. Costae commonly form a three pointed star where three corallites adjoin.
Colour: Usually brown, sometimes with green or grey oral discs.
Similar species: Favites abdita, which has more angular corallites and lacks the star-like costal pattern. See also F. chinensis.
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