Agnia Losina-Losinskaja

{{Short description|Soviet botanist (1903–1958)}}

{{Infobox scientist

|name = Agnia Sergeyevna Losina-Losinskaja

|birth_date = {{birth year|1903}}

|birth_place =

|death_date = {{death year and age|1958|1903}}

|nationality = Russian

|fields = Botany

|known_for =

|author_abbrev_bot = Losinsk.

}}

Agnia Sergeyevna Losina-Losinskaja ({{lang|ru|Агния Сергеевна Лозина-Лозинская}}) (1903–1958) was a Soviet botanist. Her family name is also transcribed as Lozina-Lozinscaia,{{Cite web |title=HUH Botanist Record |work=Harvard University Herbaria (online) |url=http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?mode=details&id=68532 |accessdate=2014-05-15 }} and Lozina-Lozinskaja.{{Citation |last=Hedberg |first=K.O. |year=1992 |title=Taxonomic differentiation in Saxifraga hirculus L. (Saxifragaceae)–a circumpolar Arctic-Boreal species of Central Asiatic origin |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=109 |issue=3 |pages=377–393 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.1992.tb00280.x }}, see References

She is the author or co-author of the botanical names of at least 216 taxa, including species of Calligonum, Cortusa, Fragaria, Micranthes and Rheum, as well as Galanthus woronowii and the synonym Muscarimia muscari.{{Cite web |title=IPNI Plant Name Query Results for 'Losinsk.' |work=The International Plant Names Index |accessdate=2014-05-15 |url=http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_family=&find_genus=&find_species=&find_infrafamily=&find_infragenus=&find_infraspecies=&find_authorAbbrev=Losinsk.&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_publicationTitle=&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query&back_page=plantsearch }} (Total number of names obtained by eliminating duplicate taxa in this list.) Two economically important crop plants were amongst her interests. She produced a monograph on Rheum (rhubarb), suggesting that the genus had two primary centres of origin: the older being in China, the younger in Iran, spreading later into Central Asia.{{Citation |title=History of the Study of Rhubarb |publisher=Russian State Agrarian University (РОССИЙСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ АГРАРНЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ) |url=http://www.activestudy.info/istoriya-izucheniya-revenya/ |accessdate=2014-05-15 |language=Russian }} She also wrote a review of the genus Fragaria (strawberries).{{Citation |last=Losina-Losinskaja |first=A.S. |year=1926 |title=Review of the genus Fragaria L. |journal=Proceedings of the Botanical Garden of the USSR (Известия Ботанического сада АН СССР) |volume=25 |pages=47–88 |language=Russian }} She contributed to a number of volumes of the Flora of the USSR, such as Volume IX, both in the text and as an illustrator.{{Citation |editor-last=Komarov |editor-first=V.L. |title=Flora of the USSR, Volume IX: Rosales and Sarraceniales (English translation) |year=1968 |publisher=Israel Program for Scientific Translations, for Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation |url=https://archive.org/stream/floraofussr09bota/floraofussr09bota_djvu.txt }}, search for "Lozina" In a memoir by the botanist Anastasia Semenova-Tian-Shanskaja, she is referred to as the favourite student of Vladimir Komarov,{{Citation |last=Семенова-Тян-Шанская |first=А.М. |year=2013 |script-title=ru:Записки о пережитом |location=St. Petersburg |publisher=Anatolia |isbn=978-5-7452-0048-9 |url=http://www.kmay.ru/pub_files/n75.pdf |accessdate=2014-05-21 |language=Russian }}, p. 248: "Агния Сергеевна Лозинская (Гага) — любимая ученица В. Л. Комарова" after whom the Komarov Botanical Institute is named and who was the senior editor of the Flora of the USSR until his death in 1945.

{{botanist|Losinsk.}}