Characters: Colonies are submassive to encrusting. Corallites are deep with very thin angular walls giving colonies a honeycomb appearance. Corallites are usually less than 7 millimetres diameter. Septa are few and widely spaced, paliform lobes are absent.
Colour: Dark colours, often with white upper margins to walls.
Similar Species: Favites pentagona, which has thicker walls, slightly larger corallites and well developed paliform lobes. See also F. spinosa, which has very exsert septa and Goniastrea columella, which has paliform lobes.
Habitat: Shallow reef environments.
Abundance: Rare.
Taxonomic Note: A species complex.
Taxonomic References: Wijsman-Best (1972); Veron (2000a);
Identification Guides: Chan, Choi, McCorry et al. (2005); Turak and DeVantier (2011b);
