Anacropora forbesi is a species of briar coral that can be found in the tropical western and central Indo-Pacific region.

This coral is usually a light brown colour with pale tips to the branches.

[3] It is closely related to Acropora and Montipora corals, but differs from them in not having a terminal axial corallite at the tip of the branches.

Its range extends from Madagascar, the east coast of Africa and the Red Sea to the northeastern Indian Ocean, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines and the East China Sea.

[1] This is a vigorous fast-growing coral which can form lawn-like patches on the reef to the exclusion of other species.