Cyrtandra cleopatrae is a species of plant in the family Gesneriaceae endemic to the Philippines. It is a tropical shrub having recaulescent inflorescences composed of multiple purpled flowers that emerge on the plant stem from stubby shoots. It was first collected for science during a 1998 expedition sponsored by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, from a location in Palawan called Cleopatra's Needle (elev. 1550m), thus the specific epithet "cleopatrae". The taxon was first published in the Edinburgh Journal of Botany in 2001.
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Herbarium specimens: From JSTOR Plant Science Map showing the location where living specimens of C. cleopatrae were collected: From the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Living Plant Collection (via dataset held at Global Biodiversity Information Facility, or GBIF.org)