Characters: Colonies are corymbose plates up to approximately one metre across, with short, uniform, evenly spaced, non-tapered branchlets bearing numerous axial corallites. There is usually more than one axial corallite per branchlet. Radial corallites near branchlet tips are tubular and appressed.
Colour: Grey, cream, blue (which may photograph pink) or brown.
Similar Species: Acropora desalwii. Acropora granulosa has long axial corallites and is not corymbose. See also A. parapharaonis.
Habitat: A wide range of environments from lower reef slopes to lagoons.
Abundance: Common in Western Australia, rarely common elsewhere.
Taxonomic References: Veron and Wallace (1984); Wallace (1999); Veron (2000a); Wallace, Done and Muir (2012);
Identification Guides: Veron (1986a); Nishihira and Veron (1995); Turak and DeVantier (2011b);
