Location continental Africa: The reader is referred to the detailed discussion of this section in the Saintpaulia article. The species in this section are as we typically know them for the former genus Saintpaulia. They are only found in the Eastern Arc Mountains of East Africa always growing in protected moist habitats on cliff walls or ancient coral cave walls. Their habitat is mostly dense forests at altitudes from just above sea level to the Inselberg mountains that rise to 2500 meters off the Tanzanian and Kenyan coastal plain. Their horticultural use is undoubtedly the most extensive in the genus, if not in the whole family Gesneriaceae.
Species listing in section Saintpaulia:
Streptocarpus afroviola
Streptocarpus brevipilosus
Streptocarpus goetzeanus
Streptocarpus inconspicuus
Streptocarpus ionanthus subsp. ionanthus var. ionanthus
Streptocarpus ionanthus subsp. grandifolius
Streptocarpus ionanthus subsp. grotei
Streptocarpus ionanthus subsp. ionanthus var. diplotrichus
Streptocarpus ionanthus subsp. mafiensis
Streptocarpus ionanthus subsp. occidentalis
Streptocarpus ionanthus subsp. orbicularis
Streptocarpus ionanthus subsp. pendulus
Streptocarpus ionanthus subsp. rupicolus
Streptocarpus ionanthus subsp. velutinus
Streptocarpus nitidus
Streptocarpus shumensis
Streptocarpus teitensis
Streptocarpus ulugurensis
Streptocarpus watkinsii