Streptocarpus hilburttianus is known from only a few high altitude areas (around 2000 m above sea level) in Mpumalanga Province of South Africa, where it grows primarily in open grassveld on steep shaded embankments. The leaves abscise due to the severe winters at these altitudes and then regrow in spring when rain falls again. It is very similar to Streptocarpus galpinii as it also possesses 1 to 3 leaves so. However, Streptocarpus hilburttianus has a cylindric corolla, not cup-shaped and open as in Streptocarpus galpinii, which has two chevrons of deep mauve on the sides on the bottom lobe of the corolla.

• A photo of the leaves, with a hand for scale
• Another flowering plant
• The landscape within which the species grows