Characters: Colonies are large, free-living, circular to oval, dome-shaped and heavily constructed, without an axial furrow. Corallites are compact. Septa vary little in height. Tentacles are extended only at night.
Colour: Usually pale or dark brown or green, sometimes mottled and sometimes with purple margins and white corallite centres.
Similar Species: Sandalolitha dentata, which is irregular in shape and less domed, with widely spaced corallites.
Habitat: Most reef habitats.
Abundance: Common.
Taxonomic References: Veron and Pichon (1980); Hoeksema (1989a); Veron (2000a);
Identification Guides: Veron (1986a); Nishihira and Veron (1995); Turak and DeVantier (2011b);
