Characters: Colonies are generally encrusting or form solid plates, occasionally becoming submassive. They have a flat or irregular surface and may be over 2 metres across. Corallites have long or short fine septal spines which seldom connect. Tips of polyp tentacles may be pointed or knob-like. Sometimes six large tentacles alternate with six small tentacles.
Colour: Usually uniform pale or dark brown, rarely green or other colours. Polyps sometimes have white tentacle tips.
Similar Species: Alveopora daedalea. See also A. tizardi, which has smaller corallites, a more solid skeletal structure and distinctive knobs on tentacle tips.
Habitat: Protected upper reef slopes.
Abundance: Usually uncommon.
Taxonomic Note: A species complex.
Taxonomic References: Veron and Pichon (1982); Veron (2000a); Latypov (2006c);
Identification Guides: Veron (1986a); Sheppard and Sheppard (1991); Nishihira and Veron (1995); Pillay, Terashima, Venkatasami et al. (2002); Turak and DeVantier (2011b);