Wurfbainia elegans is a species of plant belonging to Zingiberaceae, the ginger family. It is endemic to the Philippines.
The species is abundant in the secondary forest of Camp 7 Experimental Forest Station, Minglanilla, Cebu. The forest, with a relatively dry season from November to April, and wet season the rest of the year, is dominated by the plant species Sarcandra glabra, Artocarpus odoratissimus and Donax canniformis.
The Singapore-based English botanist Henry Nicholas Ridley first described the species under the name Amomum elegans in 1906. The genus and species were revised in 2018 by the botanists Jana à  korniÃÂkova (born 1975) and Axel Dalberg Poulsen (born 1961, Danmark), in the journal Taxon.