Streptocarpus teitensis, synonym Saintpaulia teitensis,[2] is a species of Streptocarpus in the section Saintpaulia. It is endemic to 1 square kilometer on Mbololo Hill in the Taita Hills of southern Kenya. The total population is estimated at less than 2,500 individual plants in the wild.[1]

Streptocarpus teitensis
In cultivation
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Gesneriaceae
Genus:	Streptocarpus
Section:	S. sect. Saintpaulia
Species:	S. teitensis
Binomial name
Streptocarpus teitensis (B.L.Burtt) Christenh.[2]
Synonyms[2]
Saintpaulia teitensis B.L.Burtt

References

• Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 22: 559 1958.

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