Bunga

Diagnosis. Colony with polyps connected through thin stolons, which are cylindrical in cross-section and loosely attached to hard substrate. Anthocodiae retract into clavate calyces, which do not retract into the stolon. Oral disk expanded to circular membrane, as is characteristic of arulids. Oral disk with eight shallow furrows running from intertentacular margin to mouth of polyp, dividing membrane into eight lobes. Distal two-thirds of tentacles extend from fused margins of oral membrane. Sclerites of anthocodiae are rods. Sclerites of calyx are table-radiates. Sclerites of stolon are fused table-radiates forming a sheet. Sclerites colourless. Zooxanthellate.

Etymology. From the Malaysian and Indonesian word bunga, meaning flower; denoting the shape of the polyps, which resemble flowers. Gender: feminine.