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Mount Mimongo
Mount Mimongo (locally known as Mt Songo), with an elevation of , is one of the higher mountains in the Chaillu Mountain Range in Gabon. The summit is situated east of the small town of Mimongo and within a few hours' walk from the village Dibandi. The region was first explored by Paul Du Chaillu between 1855 and 1865. Flora '' Pararistolochia incisiloba'' (Jongkind) M.E. Leal (Aristolochiaceae) is a plant species endemic to Mt Mimongo and also the only location on mainland Africa where '' Begonia thomeana'' C.DC. ( Begoniaceae) is found, previously endemic to Sao Tome SAO or Sao may refer to: Places * Sao civilisation, in Middle Africa from 6th century BC to 16th century AD * Sao, a town in Boussé Department, Burkina Faso * Saco Transportation Center (station code SAO), a train station in Saco, Maine, U. .... ReferencesBritannica *https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050730/http://carpe.umd.edu/Documents/2008/The_biodiversity_of_Bouvala_NV_Gabon_TStevart_MELeal_Jul20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaillu Mountains
The Chaillu Mountains are a mountain range straddling southern Gabon and the Republic of Congo which is named after the French explorer Paul Du Chaillu, who explored and documented this region in the 19th century. The highest peaks are Mont Iboundji Mont Iboundji is a peak located in Gabon. Claims that it is the highest point of the country, with an altitude of , are neither supported by SRTM data nor empirically. Other sources indicate the Mont Bengoué as the most elevated peak in Gabon. ... (980m), and Mt Mimongo (1020 m). The rocks of the range are sedimentary in origin. The range is home to the rises of several rivers including the Louesse, Ogoulou, Ikoy, Lolo, Lekoko, Lebombi, and Offoue. References * Gardinier David. 1994. Historical Dictionary of Gabon 2nd Edition. USA: The Scarercrow Press, Inc Mountain ranges of Gabon Tourist attractions in Gabon Mountain ranges of the Republic of the Congo {{Gabon-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabon
Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west. It has an area of nearly and its population is estimated at million people. There are coastal plains, mountains (the Cristal Mountains and the Chaillu Massif in the centre), and a savanna in the east. Since its independence from France in 1960, the sovereign state of Gabon has had three presidents. In the 1990s, it introduced a multi-party system and a democratic constitution that aimed for a more transparent electoral process and reformed some governmental institutions. With petroleum and foreign private investment, it has the fourth highest HDI in the region (after Mauritius, Seychelles and South Africa) and the fifth highest GDP per capita (PPP) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngounié Province
Ngounié is a province of south-central Gabon covering an area of . Its capital is Mouila. At the 2013 census it had 100,838 inhabitants. In 2016, its governor was Benjamin Nzigou. History The province is named after the Ngounié River, which crosses it with its many tributaries. In December 1858 the French explorer Paul Du Chaillu navigated the Nguoiné river upstream to Fougamou. On his journey, he met several local tribes whom he described in his diaries of his second voyage. Later, Catholic missions were built in Mandji, Sindara, and Saint Martin, whose architecture attracts many tourists. Geography The geography varies from large expanses of savannah and forest to the Monts de Cristal in the north to the Chaillu and Ikoundou ranges further south. Steep sloping mountains abut plains and dense forests, savannah, lakes, and rich farmland. Population Estimated at 101,415 inhabitants, the population of the Ngounié includes significant ethnic diversity including Eshira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimongo
Mimongo is a place in the region of Province de la Ngounie in Gabon at 1°37'12" south of the equator and 11°36'36" east of the Greenwich Prime Meridian. Mimongo has a population of approximately 3,307 people. Facts on Mimongo: Name: Mimongo Status: Place Region: Province de la Ngounie Country: Gabon Continent: Africa Population: 3,307 Latitude/Breadth: 1°37'12"S (-1.6195200°) Longitude/Length: 11°36'36"E (11.6067500°) Time zone: Africa/Libreville (UTC +1.0) Current time: 12:10pm (Wednesday, 7 Dec 2011) Distance as the crow flies between Mimongo and Gabon's capital Libreville Libreville is the capital and largest city of Gabon. Occupying in the northwestern province of Estuaire, Libreville is a port on the Komo River, near the Gulf of Guinea. As of the 2013 census, its population was 703,904. The area has been inh ... is approximately 327 km (203 mi.). External links Satellite map Populated places in Ngounié Province {{Gabon-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Du Chaillu
Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (July 31, 1831 (disputed)April 29, 1903) was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. He later researched the prehistory of Scandinavia. Early life and parentage There are conflicting reports of both the year and place of Du Chaillu's birth. The year is variously given as 1831 (the consensus of modern scholars), 1835, or 1839; the date when given is July 31. Accounts usually cite either Paris or New Orleans as his likely place of birth. A contemporary obituary quotes a statement made by Du Chaillu referring to "the United States, my country by adoption, and ... France, my native land." His entry in the 1901-1902 edition of ''Marquis Who's Who'' — which was based on information he supplied directly to the editors — says 1838 in New Orleans. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pararistolochia Incisiloba
''Pararistolochia'' is a genus of plant family Aristolochiaceae. Species The genus contains (but may not be limited to) the following species: African species * ''Pararistolochia ceropegioides'', (S. Moore) Hutch. & Dalz. * ''Pararistolochia fimbriata'', M.E. Leal & D. Nguema * ''Pararistolochia goldieana'', (Hook.f.) Hutch. & Dalz. * '' Pararistolochia incisiloba'', (Jongkind) M.E. Leal * ''Pararistolochia leonensis'', Hutch. & Dalziel * ''Pararistolochia mannii'', (Hook.f. ) Keay * ''Pararistolochia macrocarpa'', (Duch.) Poncy * ''Pararistolochia preussii'', (Engl.) Hutch. & Dalziel * ''Pararistolochia promissa'', (Mast.) Keay * ''Pararistolochia triactina'', (Hook.f.) Hutch. & Dalziel * ''Pararistolochia zenkeri'', (Engl.) Hutch. & Dalziel Malagasy species * ''Pararistolochia enricoi'', Luino, L. Gaut & Callm. Australasian species * ''Pararistolochia australopithecurus'', M.J. Parsons * '' Pararistolochia biakensis'', M.J. Parsons * ''Pararistolochia decandra'', (Ding Hou) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristolochiaceae
The Aristolochiaceae () are a family, the birthwort family, of flowering plants with seven genera and about 400 known species belonging to the order Piperales. The type genus is ''Aristolochia'' L. Description They are mostly perennial, herbaceous plants, shrubs, or lianas. The membranous, cordate simple leaves are spread out, growing alternately along the stem on leaf stalks. The margins are commonly entire. No stipules are present. The bizarre flowers are large to medium-sized, growing in the leaf axils. They are bilaterally or radially symmetrical. Classification Aristolochiaceae are magnoliids, a basal group of angiosperms which are not part of the large categories of monocots or eudicots. As of APG IV (2016), the former families Hydnoraceae and Lactoridaceae are included, because exclusion would make Aristolochiaceae in the traditional sense paraphyletic. Some newer classification schemes, such as the update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, place the family Aristol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Begonia Thomeana
''Begonia'' is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Begoniaceae. The genus contains more than 2,000 different plant species. The Begonias are native to moist subtropical and tropical climates. Some species are commonly grown indoors as ornamental houseplants in cooler climates. In cooler climates some species are cultivated outside in summertime for their bright colorful flowers, which have sepals but no petals. Description With 2,002 species, ''Begonia'' is one of the largest genera of flowering plants. The species are terrestrial (sometimes epiphytic) herbs or undershrubs, and occur in subtropical and tropical moist climates, in South and Central America, Africa, and southern Asia. Terrestrial species in the wild are commonly upright- stemmed, rhizomatous, or tuberous. The plants are monoecious, with unisexual male and female flowers occurring separately on the same plant; the male contains numerous stamens, and the female has a large inferior ovary and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Begoniaceae
Begoniaceae is a family of flowering plants with two genera and about 2040 species occurring in the subtropics and tropics of both the New World and Old World. All but one of the species are in the genus ''Begonia''. There have been many recent discoveries of species in the genus ''Begonia'', such as ''Begonia truncatifolia'' which is endemic to San Vincente, Palawan. ''B. truncatifolia'' is smaller in size than other species of the genus ''Begonia'' and this new species is proposed Critically Endangered by standards set by the IUCN. The only other genus in the family, ''Hillebrandia'', is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands and has a single species. Phylogenetic work supports ''Hillebrandia'' as the sister taxon to the rest of the family. The genus ''Symbegonia'' was reduced to a section of ''Begonia'' in 2003, as molecular phylogenies had shown it to be derived from within that genus. Members of the genus ''Begonia'' are well-known and popular houseplants. Begonia flowers in bloom.j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sao Tome
SAO or Sao may refer to: Places * Sao civilisation, in Middle Africa from 6th century BC to 16th century AD * Sao, a town in Boussé Department, Burkina Faso * Saco Transportation Center (station code SAO), a train station in Saco, Maine, U.S. * SAO, the ICAO airline designator for Sahel Aviation Service, Mali * SAO, the IATA airport code for airports in the São Paulo metropolitan area, Brazil * Serb Autonomous Regions during the breakup of Yugoslavia * São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil Science * Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. ** Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog, which assigns SAO catalogue entries * Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science (SAO RAS) Entertainment * ''Sword Art Online'', a Japanese light novel series ** ''Sword Art Online'' (2012 TV series), an anime adaptation of the light novels * Sao Sao Sao, a Thai pop music trio Other uses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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