Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Urceolina × grandiflora
Lirio del Amazonas, eucaristo, eucaristia, Amazon Lily, eucharist lily
The hybrid formula is U. moorei x U. sanderi (POWO, 2023).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Liliopsida (= Monocotyledoneae)
Order
Asparagales
Family
Amaryllidaceae
Genus
Urceolina
Species
× grandiflora
Taxon category: Accepted
Eucharis × lowii Baker in Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 13: 538 (1893); Eucharis × mastersii Baker in Bot. Mag. 111: t. 6831 (1885); Urceolina × lowii (Baker) Traub in Pl. Life 27: 58 (1971); Urceolina × mastersii (Baker) Traub in Pl. Life 27: 59 (1971) (POWO, 2023).
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 1999
Mode of introduction: Intentional
Introduction Pathway: Intentional
Subpathway: Agriculture/Horticulture
Introduced status: Human dependent
Invasive status: Unlikely to become invasive
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: The native range of this hybrid is W. Colombia to W. Ecuador (POWO, 2023).
- Guézou, A. Trueman, M., Buddenhagen, E., Chamorro, S., Guerrero, A.M., Pozo, P., Atkinson, R. (2010) An extensive Alien Plan Inventory from the Inhabited Areas of Galapagos Plos One/ www.plosone.org. Volume 5/ Issue 4/e10276
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
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"Galapagos Species Database, Urceolina × grandiflora", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25053. Accessed 5 November 2026.