Wallace's Acropora Groupings

Description: Colonies are corymbose to tubular, with short branches. Redial corallites are all the same size and have prominent lower lips giving a scale-like appearance. 

Designer Names: 24Karat Mille, ORA Rose Mille, ORA Blue Mille, Superman Mille, ORA Nathans Green, ORA Scripps Pink Milli, Palmers Milli, Sunrise Mille.

Description: Limited-branching colonies with digitate or sub-arboescent growth; known colors bright green or greenish-cream; occurs on intertidal reef flats.

Description: Opem arborescent, thicket-like colonies, usually low, sprawling and than 5cm in height because of tidal limits, may appear corymbose when occuring at low tide mark, but can also form tall arborescent thickets (with branches up to around 40 cm in length), e.g. in sheltered inlets; radial corallites appear ragged, scattered and not very obvious; known color is brown, brown with blue tiips; occurs in reef flat and shallow habitats or inter-reefal lagoons.

Desription: Corymbose colonies; with thick terete branches and distinctive scale-like radial corallites, very evenly distrubuted and sized; known colors are green with orange branch tips, orange-brown, pink or blue; occurs mostly intertidally on reef flats, or in shallow low subtiital areas.

Description: Colonies are tables, usually side-attached, with generally horizontal radiating anastomosing branches which may form an almost solid plate. There is usually no development of vertical branchlets. Radial corallites are immersed to tubular, with nariform openings.

Description: Colonies have an exceptionally wide range of growth-forms ranging from flattened plates to cushions. Branches may be flattened or tapered. Axial corallites are often devoid of radial corallites on their upper surface. Radial corallites are all similar and are usually aligned along branches. They change along the branch from immersed to tubular and appressed.

Description: Colonies consist of flat, highly fused, basal branches with irregular upright branchlets. Colonies may be over 2 metres across and can sometimes form a single solid plate. Axial corallites are tubular and distinct. Radial corallites are immersed on older parts of colonies, becoming tubular with nariform openings on peripheral parts.

Designer Names: Tyree L.E. soli, Tabling Acropora Coral Bali

Description: Colonies are bottlebrush, forming thickets with upright or prostrate main branches. Branches are evenly spaced, corallites are small and exsert.

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Colonies are composed of prostrate, sometimes intertwined, bottlebrush branches. Secondary branchlets are fine and uniform. There is no distinction between axial and incipient axial corallites. Radial corallites are short and tubular or pocket shaped, indistinct or absent. Acroporas require very specific conditions to survive and flourish.

Description: Colonies are subarborescent with bottlebrush branches where upright main branches form clumps. Axial, incipient axial and radial corallites all intergrade. Axial corallites are long and tubular while the smallest radial corallites are pocket-like. All corallites have thick walls with round openings.

Description: Colonies are arborescent with straight cylindrical branches. These may form stands over 10 metres across and 2 metres high. Branches are either widely separated or compact, depending on space availability. Axial corallites are large and exsert. Radial corallites are outward facing, appressed to tubular, with circular openings.

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Finger-like branches arising vertically in clumps or from basal plates, fingers up to 3 cm thick. Each tapers to a large axial corallite 5 mm wide. Radial corallites are about 2 mm diameter, have thick lips especially on the lower side, and immersed radials may commonly lie between the protruding ones.

Colonies are corymbose. Branches are thick, tapering to a large axial corallite. Radial corallites are of two sizes, usually in rows.

Description: Thin, finely structured flat plates. Colonies are wide flat tables which are usually thin and finely structured. May become thick and robust in turbulent environments. Fine upward projecting branchlets have exsert axial corallites. Radial corallites are short, with open calices. Tentacles are frequently extended during the day.

Description: Pillow-like colonies, not quite developing into small, loose tables. Yellow to grey, usually with corallite tips of a different colour. Corallites are long, slender and smooth, marbled or glassy in appearance which makes the species distinctive. Their shape is cylindrical, not flared (Sheppard).

Description: Colonies are compact clumps of long, non-tapering, straight, equidistant branchlets radiating from a solid base. Axial corallites are tubular with rounded margins. Radial corallites are long, tubular and appressed. The whole colony is delicate and branchlets readily break apart.

Description: Colonies are thick horizontal plattes composed of horizontal branches and short upright branchlets. The latter have large tapering corallites curving upwards or pointing n different directions.

Description:Colonies are corymbose to casepitose. Branches are terrete and divide irregularly.

Description: Colonies are corymbose plates with crowded branchlets. Branchlets at the colony perimeter are mostly horizontal and distinct from those from the rest of the colony. Branchlets may have more than one axial corallite. Axial corallites and incipient axial corallites are long, tubular and upright, except towards plate margins where they are similar to radial corallites.

Description: Colonies have many shapes and may be bottlebrush, caespitose or plate-like. Corallites may be tubular or have thickend walls becoming tubular. Tubular axial corallites may have no radial corallites on one side like A. divaricata.

Loripes Acropora has unique corallites which make it an unusual and interesting coral. Colonies have many shapes and may be bottlebrush, caespitose or plate-like. Corallites may be tabular or have thickened walls becoming tubular. Tubular axial corallites may have no radial corallites on one side.

Description: Grows with upwards oriented branches with large noticeable radial corallites. Colonies are caespitose or corymbose, composed of branches which interlock in three dimensions. Branches are thin, with most of their width occupied by corallites. Axial corallites are tubular. Radial corallites are tubular and appressed, becoming nariform and conspicuous towards the tips of branches giving colonies a spiny appearance.

Description: Colonies arc mostly corymbose. Branches are tapered, up to 25 mm in diameter. Corallites are of mixed sizes, sometimes alternating in vertical rows, and are large and conspicuous.

Description: Colonies are caespitose, small bushes when small, but develop into brackets or corymbose plates up to almost a metre across when fully developed. Corallites are tubular or appressed, usually with thick lips, and appear to be closely packed together. Those on the undersides of the main branches are smaller, sparse, and mostly immersed. The main branches of older colonies may grow horizontally, in which case branchlets curve up vertically from them. Small fragments of branches which do not reveal the corymbose colony structure may look very similar to a large A. nasuta. This is a common coral found in both clear and fairly turbid water, mostly where illumination is good (Sheppard)

Description: A vary exotic thick stag horn like growth with random raspy corallites. Colonies are clumps of prostrate branches with fused central branches and upwardly projecting peripheral branches. Branches may be conical to elongate, with or without pointed ends. Branches may have one to several axial corallites. Radial corallites are elongate.

Decsription: Hispidose to arborescent; corallites large and obvious; can occur as slender-branched arborescent thickets, provinding the major cover on reef slopes; alternatively it can occur as rounded and shrubby colonies; occurs subtidally in almost all reef locations.

Desription: Colonies range from caepitose to irregular arborescent thickets, with disctinctive think branches and obvious large tubular-conical radial corallites; known color blue or pale brown; occurs in sandy lagonal situations.

Description: Colonies consist of dense thickets of short cylindrical branches. They are frequently over 2 metres across and may form extensive single species stands. Axial corallites are exsert and tubular. Radial corallites are uniform in size and tubular, with flaring lower lips. 

Description: Colonies are extensive flat plates which are solid except towards the perimeter which usually consists of highly fused irregular branches. They may exceed 2 metres across. Axial and radial corallites are not differentiated; all have sharp rims. Corallites at plate margins are mostly horizontal, those on upper plate surfaces are short, compact and upward facing. There is little or no development of corallites on the undersurfaces of plates.

Description: New coral, discovered in 2000

Description:Colonies are thick tables formed of irregularly fused horizontal branches and irregular upright branchlets. Axial and incipient axial corallites are very prominent and tubular in shape.

Designer Names: Possible Tyree Purple Monster, Ponape Rainbow Acro
Common Names: Table Acropora, Tabletop Acropora, Bushy Acropora
 

Description: Colonies consist of fused branches which are prostrate, becoming plate-like. Branches are also flattened, especially the lower ones. Corallites are widely spaced and immersed.