The lower face is white dirtied with orange, and crossed by 5 ambulacral grooves.

Inside the body, the skeleton is strikingly reduced: the main part of the mass of the star is muscular.

[3] This sea star lives in the sub-reef zone, between 67 and 200 m (220 and 656 ft) deep, and seems rather widely distributed in the Indo-pacific, From Reunion island to Samoa.

[3] Along with some other deep-sea creatures, this sea star has been used in Japan as a model for a sushi-shaped gachapon toy.

[4] There, the species is referred as ryugu sakura hitode, which means "dragon palace cherry blossom sea star".