Tournefort, a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes département, in France
From Tournefort’s accounts in 1702 central northern Samos was primarily uncultivated forest.
The terms genus and species acquired their specialized biological usage from Linnaeus's predecessors, in particular Ray and Tournefort.
It was subsequently separated by Philip Miller in 1768 into the genus Frangula on the basis of its hermaphrodite flowers with a five-parted corolla (dioecious, and four-parted in Rhamnus); this restored the treatment of pre-Linnaean authors, notably Tournefort.
Later, Carl Linnaeus changed the name to Tournefortia, on the grounds that Tournefort was virtually unknown by his family name outside France.
He studied botany from 1686 to 1688 in Paris under Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and was a friend and pupil of Paul Hermann in Leyden from 1688 to 1689 who also studied with Tournefort at this time.