Montipora species ID?

[GlassMunky]

We got this coral from a local vendor years back that he would just call his “highlighter green Monti”
It’s got a really odd, but interesting growth structure. It’s somewhat plating but the entire coral has this crazy topography and random areas will throw up these tower like spires.

Here’s a couple closeup videos showing its growth structure topography on some pieces I just fragged off, and then the mother colony in the back at the end of the video.

Anyone have a guess?

 

[Reefing102]

Just looks like a green Montipora capricornus to me. Could be wrong but that’s my view

 

[GlassMunky]

I’ve had many caps before and none have ever had this kind of topography, and none have ever thrown up branches from the plates. I HIGHLY DOUBT this is a capricornus.

 

[GlassMunky]

Looking on corals of the world at the skeletal structure I’m wondering maybe M. Foliosa maybe?

http://www.coralsoftheworld.org/species_factsheets/species_factsheet_summary/montipora-foliosa/

 

[UMALUM]

It's a cap... they will grow stems. Why some do and some don't???

 

[GlassMunky]

It's a cap... they will grow stems. Why some do and some don't???

Yea I don’t think that’s a cap either

We may call them that because they plate but when you look at the skeletal structure of what’s a know Capricornus and this and it’s not the same.
This is a true cap

Corals of the World

 

[PeterErc]

it’s this aequituberculata

Impressive if you have room to grow it out

 

[GlassMunky]

it’s this aequituberculata

Impressive if you have room to grow it out

It gets big pretty quick we regularly have to break chunks off to keep it in check

 

[PeterErc]

It gets big pretty quick we regularly have to break chunks off to keep it in check

I get it, I didn’t have the room for that one either.

 

[encrustingacro]

Not capricornis; virtually all of what we call "Montipora capricornis" in the hobby are misidentified. True M. capricornis doesn't have any papillae or tuberculae, but still have a rough surface.

 

[encrustingacro]

The branching is also likely just an aberration in growth.