{{short description|Species of plant}} {{Speciesbox |image = Eucharis candida.jpg |genus = Urceolina |species = candida |authority = (Planch. & Linden) Traub |synonyms = *''Caliphruria candida'' <small>(Planch. & Linden) Baill.</small> *''Eucharis candida'' <small>Planch. & Linden</small> |synonyms_ref = <ref name=Kew/> }}

'''''Urceolina candida''''' is a species of flowering plant in the family ''Amaryllidaceae''.<ref name=Kew>{{Cite web |title=''Urceolina candida'' (Planch. & Linden) Traub |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:261572-2 |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Kew Science}}</ref><ref name=COL>{{cite web |url= https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/7YDPZ |title= Urceolina candida (Planch. & Linden) Traub |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=Catalogue of Life |publisher=Species 2000 |access-date=June 24, 2025}}</ref> It is native to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru but cultivated as an ornamental in many other regions.<ref>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=305847 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, ''Eucharis candida'']</ref>

This plant is a bulb-forming her with broadly lanceolate to elliptical leaves, pleated lengthwise. Flowers are drooping, borne in umbels. Tepals are white, egg-shaped, and curl backwards to reveal the yellow anthers.<ref>Jules Émile Planchon & Jean Jules Linden. 1853. Catalogue des Plantes Exotiques 8: 3.</ref>

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candida Category:Flora of Peru Category:Flora of Colombia Category:Flora of Ecuador Category:Garden plants Category:Plants described in 1853 Category:Taxa named by Jean Jules Linden Category:Taxa named by Jules Émile Planchon