Characters: Colonies are thin, flat to vase-shaped laminae with a conspicuous central corallite in smaller colonies and widely spaced radial corallites. Costae are exsert, unequal and smooth or toothed.
Colour: Mottled brown, green and red.
Similar Species: Resembles Oxypora crassispinosa more than other Echinophyllia species.
Habitat: Protected reef environments, especially vertical faces and lower reef slopes.
Abundance: Usually rare.
Taxonomic References: Veron and Pichon (1980); Veron (2000a);
Identification Guides: Veron (1986a); Nishihira and Veron (1995); Pillay, Terashima, Venkatasami et al. (2002); Turak and DeVantier (2011b);
