Although Streptocarpus breviflos appears on all lists of Streptocarpus species in the World Floras, it is probably not a valid species.

It was described in 1904 by C.B Clarke (see botanical history) after he originally named it Streptocarpus saundersii var. breviflos. “Breviflos” means short flower so this perhaps refers to a short flowered variety of Strepocarpus saundersii. While reported to be native to Free State Province of South Africa there are virtually no locations within that Province that have habitat suitable for Streptocarpus species, it being largely hot and dry. Aside from the original publication there is no botanical record of S. breviflos – no herbarium specimen, no collections, no photographs, no drawings and no sighting reports at all. Hilliard and Burtt, in Streptocarpus – An African Plant Study (1971), include it in their list of “Excluded and doubtful names”, and address the doubtful legitimacy of the species in their comments (page 374).