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Streptocarpus teitensis

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Species of flowering plant

Streptocarpus teitensis
In cultivation
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this 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.
Synonyms
  • Saintpaulia teitensis B.L.Burtt

Streptocarpus teitensis, synonym Saintpaulia teitensis, 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.

References

  1. ^ IUCN Redlist entry
  2. ^ "Streptocarpus teitensis (B.L.Burtt) Christenh.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2020-03-11
  • Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 22: 559 1958.
Taxon identifiers
Streptocarpus teitensis
Saintpaulia teitensis
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