Hoffmannanthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Asteraceae (sunflower family).

It is found in the countries of Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zaïre.

The leaves are alternate (different levels along a stem), the petioles (leaf stalks) are slender and 7–15 mm long, below the basal acumination of blade.

The flowers or inflorescences are broadly corymbiform, with long branches which are mostly with small or insignificant bracteoles at the bases.

The flower heads are campanulate (bell-like) with the involucre much shorter than florets at maturity.

The involucral bracts are in 2–3 series, persistent, oblong-lanceolate shaped, with acute to short-acuminate tips, puberulous (covered in hairs) on the outside.

It is percurrent at the tip, with lateral margins thinly membranous and the receptacle scarcely convex, epaleate (naked) and epilose (without hairs).

The corollas are violet to purple, narrowly funnel-form, with a long basal tube and short throat.

[2] The genus name of Hoffmannanthus is in honour of Karl August Otto Hoffmann (1853–1909), a South African botanist,[3] and the Latin specific epithet of abbotianus refers to Mr. Abbot who originally collected the plant in 1890.