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I found a picture in Veron's coral book that looks dang near exact to that last picture (complete with the striped looking base)... except it describes it as a solitary coral that lives on substrate - kind of like a fungia. Perhaps they start as colonies like fungia?
Anyway... the coral I'm looking at is a Heterocyathus aequicostatus, part of the Carylphylliidae family. I did a quick look on the web for a picture, but couldn't really find one. Don't really feel like scanning a copyrighted picture and posting it, so you may do a little Googling with that name and see if you can find anything.
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