Category: Jellies, Anemones and kin view all from this category
Description Colony 12" (30 cm) or more long, 12" (30 cm) wide, forming thick clumps of irregular branches swollen at their ends, 1" (25 mm) wide. Pale beige, yellowish-brown to purplish. Branches covered with closely set cups about 1/16" (2 mm) wide and equally high.
Habitat Throughout the reef; in shallow water.
Range Florida to Texas and Mexico; Bermuda; Bahamas; West Indies.
Discussion This species is a common inhabitant of the back reef, although in that habitat it does not achieve the large size of specimens growing on the fore reef.
