Streptocarpus bindseili occurs in Rwanda in central Africa, making it the most northerly species of subgenus Streptocarpus. The species has been found in rock cracks only on two quarzitic, very small, rocky outcrops in Rwanda at Rugurama (< 1000 m2) and at Nyarubuje near Ntaruka.
Streptocarpus bindseili is a typical unifoliate with semi-succulent, ovate shaped, leaves (150 x 70 mm), light green, and covered above and below with soft hairs with prominent veins on the leaf underside and serrate edges. Each leaf can carry up to three inflorescences on short stalks with 8 to 10 flowers of which 3 to 5 open simultaneously. The corolla is 4-5 mm long, pure white throughout, hairy on the outside, glabrous inside, with no markings on the inside floor of the tube or on the lobes which is quite rare in section Streptocarpus. Upper lobes 6 x 6 mm, lower lobes 6 – 10 x 6 mm. The style and stamens are held back in the corolla tube approximately one third of its total length. The curved open tubed corolla is approximately 20 mm long. The seed capsules are 25 – 30 mm long.
As can be seen from the pictures this species makes a very pretty display in nature where small groups of plants grow in rock cracks on vertical rock walls. It is in cultivation and deserves to be grown more frequently, even though it is unifoliate and monocarpic.
