Streptocarpus galpinii grows in the high altitude areas (around 1200 m above sea level) of Mpumalanga Province of South Africa and in Eswatini (former Swaziland), where it grows primarily in open grassveld and not in forests. It finds shaded niches to survive in as can be seen from the photographs. These high altitude areas get regular frosts in winter as a result of which the leaves abscise in winter and then regrow in spring when rain falls again. The plant consists of 1 to 3 leaves so is neither a true unifoliate nor a true rosulate but can exist as both. In nature the leaves grow to maximally 150 x 120 mm, in cultivation this can be must longer. The species exhibits considerable variation over its range and the color variation of the open tube corollas is shown in the pictures.

• A close view of the flowers on the plant featured above
• Plants growing under a rock overhang
• Plants growing in a rocky crevice
• A plant growing in the mossy gap between two rocks
• A pale-flowered plant
• A cultivated plant
• A collage of different colored flowers