Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. Botanist Charles Plumier was his pupil and accompanied him on his
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Relation d'un voyage du Levant, fait par ordre du roy, 1727
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Genus is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
…Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (5 June 1656 – 28 December 1708) was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. Botanist Charles Plumier was his pupil and accompanied him on his voyages. Tournefort was born in Aix-en-Provence and studied at the Jesuit…
Estimated accepted genus totals by kingdom – based on Rees et al., 2020