Mount Mimongo (locally known as Mt Songo), with an elevation of , is one of the higher mountains in the Chaillu Mountain Range in

Gabon Gabon ( ; ), officially the Gabonese Republic (), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo to the east and south, and ...

. The summit is situated east of the small town of

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: Mimong ...

and within a few hours' walk from the village Dibandi. The region was first explored by

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 t ...

between 1855 and 1865.

Flora

'' Pararistolochia incisiloba'' (Jongkind) M.E. Leal (

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, her ...

) is a plant species

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only 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 foun ...

to Mt Mimongo and also the only location on mainland Africa where '' Begonia thomeana'' C.DC. (

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 ...

) 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 * Serb Autonomous Regions (''Srpska autonomna oblast'', SAO), during the breakup of ...

References

Britannica
*https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050730/http://carpe.umd.edu/Documents/2008/The_biodiversity_of_Bouvala_NV_Gabon_TStevart_MELeal_Jul2008.pdf *http://www.tropicos.org/NamePage.aspx?nameid=50226646&tab=specimens Mountains of Gabon {{gabon-geo-stub