Streptocarpus_afroviola
Streptocarpus afroviola
Species of flowering plant
Streptocarpus afroviola, synonym Saintpaulia pusilla, is a species of flowering plant in the family Gesneriaceae, native to Tanzania.[1] It was first described in 1900 by Adolf Engler as Saintpaulia pusilla.[2] The former genus Saintpaulia was reduced to Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia,[3] and the species was moved to Streptocarpus. However, the name Streptocarpus pusillus had been used in 1883 for a different species, so Maarten J. M. Christenhusz put forward the replacement name Streptocarpus afroviola.[4]