Acropora yongei
Veron and Wallace, 1984
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.
Color: Uniform cream, yellow or pale brown.
Habitat: Shallow reef environments and rocky foreshores.
Abundance: Common.
Similar Species: Acropora haimei which has primarily upright branches and corallites of irregular size. Acropora tumida and A. striata have similar growth-forms; the latter also has similar corallites except that radial corallites are irregular with less conspicuously flaring lower lips. See also A. donei.
Source reference: Veron (2000). Taxonomic references: Veron and Wallace (1984), Wallace (1999). Identification guides: Veron (1986), Nishihira and Veron (1995).
An extensive stand intermixed with A. horrida (purple) and large branches of A. grandis. Great Barrier Reef, Australia Photograph: Ed Lovell
Detail of branches and corallites. Great Barrier Reef, Australia Photograph: Ed Lovell
Colonies have straight branches and exsert radial corallites. Great Barrier Reef, Australia Photograph: Mary Stafford-Smith
Corallite detail. Calamian Islands, Philippines Photograph: Charlie Veron
Skeletal detail. Axial and radial corallites.