Streptocarpus makabengensis is another small monocarpic, unifoliate species. It has small dark green leaves with a red underside (maximally 300 mm long x 60 mm wide) and small white flowers (15 mm). It was originally thought to be an isolated population of Streptocarpus rimicola, but was then raised to species level in 1992 by Olive Hilliard.
It occurs on the Machabeng Mountain, a higher altitude granitic mountain massif in the northernmost Limpopo Province of South Africa, where it grows on only one of a few very exceptional inselbergs. Climbing to the cracks were it grows requires rock climbing skills and it is only found under overhangs high up on the one inselberg on this mountain. When it is dry, it disappears, only to reappear once adequate rainfall has fallen again. The summer season of 2025/6 was particularly wet allowing this species to grow in a profusion seldom seen.
