Characters: Colonies are dome-shaped or flat. Corallites are thick walled and circular, ranging within and among colonies from fully plocoid to cerioid, and 19-22 millimetres diameter. Polyps are fleshy and circular in outline.
Colour: Pale grey, yellowish or brown. Corallite rims are usually distinctively coloured.
Similar Species: Favia maxima and F. veroni, which have corallites of similar size, but these are generally more exsert.
Habitat: Reef slopes and lagoons.
Abundance: Sometimes common.
Taxonomic Note: Returned to genus Favites by some recent authors, but retained here as a Favia on morphological grounds.
Taxonomic References: Veron, Pichon and Wijsman-Best (1977); Veron (2000a);
Identification Guides: Veron (1986a); Sheppard and Sheppard (1991); Nishihira and Veron (1995); Pillay, Terashima, Venkatasami et al. (2002); Turak and DeVantier (2011b);
