I would tip on A. cerealis, as it looks to be caespitose-corymbose (interlocking bush) in growth form with slightly reflexed coralites. Not nariform enough for A. nasuta.
Looks to me like a cross between Rosaria and Austera. They have been coming in aquacultured looking like that. Sweet colors. What kind of lighting do you have it under?
A. chesterfieldensis has larger axial corallites, while the radials are short and appressed. They really touch each other. The pictured coral doesn't have appressed corallites and they are relatively long. Also, A. chesterfieldensis is very much digitate in it's colony form, not corymbose-caespitose.
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Sorry, just getting silly as the sun goes down.......
It looks somewhat like A. chesterfieldensis to me, although the axials are a bit smaller than I have seen and the over-all form is slightly corymbose instead of digitate. It actually might be A. kimbeensis or A. cerealis, but I'm not sure, as both should have less appressed coralites. Wallaces book would rule them out, but Veron's works would include them as possible. Wallaces book favours A. chesterfieldensis.
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