External characters
massive, thickly encrusting, with or without digitate stalks arising from encrusting base.
Colour
pale greenish-blue in life.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | small, scattered over surface. |
| Texture | compressible, spongy. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | minutely goose-fleshed; irregular ridges and conules. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | translucent, membranous, with discontinuous detrital layer; detritus contained within fibres. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | wide-meshed reticulation of fibres; fibres sparse, spongin, all partially cored with detritus, laminated, pith absent. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Gambier, Tuamotu, Australes, Society islands
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on pinacle and/or hard substrate.
