Acropora intermedia is a branching coral (family Acroporidae) distributed widely across the Indo-Pacific, forming dense thickets of upright branches with intermediate-sized axial and radial corallites in diverse shallow reef habitats. Like all Acropora, it critically depends on its photosymbiotic relationship with Symbiodiniaceae for energy and calcification. The species faces conservation concerns related to bleaching, disease, and coastal degradation. Genomic data have been generated for this species and are available in public databases, enabling comparative studies of cnidarian evolution and ecology.