Streptocarpus kentaniensis L.L.Britten & Story

Perennial, rosulate, with a short, stout axis vertical to the rosette. Leaves numerous, thick with a remarkably prominent midvein, suberect, lanceolate, 30-200 mm long, c. 18 mm broad, apex acute, base cuneate, margin crenate, slightly revolute, upper surface dark green, pubescent, lower surface paler, closely and prominently veined, the veins appressed-pilose with retrorse hairs; petiolode (stalk) up to 30 mm long and c. 10 mm in diam. Inflorescences from base of midrib, 2-5-flowered. Peduncles 60-120 mm long, sparsely pilose; pedicels 10-20 mm long, glandular-pilose. Bracts c. 1 mm long. Calyx divided to the base into 5 linear segments, c. 3 x 1 mm. Corolla 22-30 mm long, tube cylindric, widening slightly upwards and almost straight, c. 16-18 mm long, 6-10 mm across throat, pale violet and sparsely glandular-pubescent outside, pale yellow stripe spotted violet on floor of tube, the stripe slightly bifurcating in mouth, the tube flushed and streaked darker violet in the mouth, with a few jointed hairs on the roof of the tube and a double keel clothed in long unicellular hairs running down the centre of the floor; limb oblique, whitish, sparsely glandular-pubescent outside, glabrous inside, upper lip of 2 suborbicular, reflexed lobes, c. 4-5 x 4-5 mm, lower lip 8-12 mm long, 12-20 mm broad, lobes oblong to suborbicular, 4-6 x 4-6 mm. Stamens arising in lower third of corolla tube, filaments c. 4 mm long, twisted, white or violet; anther lobes 1.5 mm long. Ovary c. 8 mm long, glandular-pubescent with occasional eglandular hairs; style 4 mm long, similarly hairy but eglandular hairs predominating, dorsoventrally compressed; stigma of 2 equal lips offset upon the style and therefore asymmetrical in profile. Capsule 30-50 mm long, 2 mm in diam., apiculate. Seeds 0.6-0.7 mm long, reticulate.