Uncommon
along dropoffs in deeper water.
Forms encrustations, plates, and occasionally tubes, with nodules
scattered among elevated calices tilted slightly outward. Septa are sharp, alternating and granular, especially
toward the margins, with distinctive curved ridges linking
calices. Leptoseris
hawaiiensis has flat-topped granular septa.
East Africa to Japan and Pitcairn.
Coral
skeletons illustrated are from scientific collections taken prior to
1998.
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