Clinanthus elwesii is a species of plant in the family Amaryllidaceae.

[2] John Gilbert Baker, the English botanist who first formally described the species using the synonymous name Callithauma viridiflorum var.

elwesii, named it in after Henry John Elwes, another English botanist who grew the specimen Baker examined.

Prominent characteristics include flowers with a corolla which consists of six connate tepals.

[3][4] The pollen of C. elwesii is shed as permanent tetrads.