Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (5 June 1656 ? 28 December 1708) was a French botanist . He is 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 travels. He also said that fungi were plants. Today, they are a class of their own. They are different from plants and animals .

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