This species is has a typical rosulate growth form, but it has extremely hairy leaves which is probably an adaptation to its peculiar habitat. It occurs in small rock caves on the higher slopes of Mount Itremo in central Madagascar where it is completely shaded, but through which mist blows resulting in condensation of moisture in the fine hairs on its leaves thereby capturing moisture for this species to survive in these otherwise rain sheltered caves. The flowers possess very distinctive corollas but the seed capsules are typical twisted Streptocarpus capsules. It produces an open tube-shaped corolla with very reduced corolla lobes with distinctive speckled throat markings.
This is a small plant, up to 10 cm across with leaves about 2 cm wide.
