Ramose Murex, also known as Chicoreus ramosus, has a large, solid, very rugged, and heavy shell. It has a relatively globose outline, possessing a short spire, slightly inflated body whorl, and a moderately long siphonal canal. One of its most striking ornamentations is the conspicuous, leaf-like, recurved hollow digitations. It also presents three spinose axial varices per whorl, with two elongated nodes between them. The shell is colored white to light brown externally, with a white aperture that is generally pink toward the inner edge, the outer lip, and the columella.
