Faga'alu, Tutuila, American Samoa, 20 feet

Leone, Tutuila, American Samoa, 25 feet

Uncommon on shallow reefs exposed to wave action.  Domes or massive sheets with stout conical branches tapering to a rounded tip, axial corallites small, tubular radial corallites of uniform size in rows.  Pink or light brown with pink tips.  Acropora gemmifera has large radial corallites that  increase in size below.  East Africa to Samoa.