Agnia Losina-Losinskaja

Soviet botanist (1903–1958)

Agnia Sergeyevna Losina-Losinskaja
Born	1903 (1903)
Died	1958 (aged 54–55)
Nationality	Russian
Scientific career
Fields	Botany
Author abbrev. (botany)	Losinsk.

Agnia Sergeyevna Losina-Losinskaja (Агния Сергеевна Лозина-Лозинская) (1903–1958) was a Soviet botanist. Her family name is also transcribed as Lozina-Lozinscaia,^[1] and Lozina-Lozinskaja.^[2]

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.^[3] 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.^[4] She also wrote a review of the genus Fragaria (strawberries).^[5] 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.^[6] In a memoir by the botanist Anastasia Semenova-Tian-Shanskaja, she is referred to as the favourite student of Vladimir Komarov,^[7] 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.

The standard author abbreviation Losinsk. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[8]

References

^ "HUH Botanist Record". Harvard University Herbaria (online). Retrieved 2014-05-15.
^ Hedberg, K.O. (1992), "Taxonomic differentiation in Saxifraga hirculus L. (Saxifragaceae)–a circumpolar Arctic-Boreal species of Central Asiatic origin", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 109 (3): 377–393, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1992.tb00280.x, see References
^ "IPNI Plant Name Query Results for 'Losinsk.'". The International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 2014-05-15. (Total number of names obtained by eliminating duplicate taxa in this list.)
^ History of the Study of Rhubarb (in Russian), Russian State Agrarian University (РОССИЙСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ АГРАРНЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ), retrieved 2014-05-15
^ Losina-Losinskaja, A.S. (1926), "Review of the genus Fragaria L.", Proceedings of the Botanical Garden of the USSR (Известия Ботанического сада АН СССР) (in Russian), 25: 47–88
^ Komarov, V.L., ed. (1968), Flora of the USSR, Volume IX: Rosales and Sarraceniales (English translation), Israel Program for Scientific Translations, for Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation, search for "Lozina"
^ Семенова-Тян-Шанская, А.М. (2013), Записки о пережитом (PDF) (in Russian), St. Petersburg: Anatolia, ISBN 978-5-7452-0048-9, retrieved 2014-05-21, p. 248: "Агния Сергеевна Лозинская (Гага) — любимая ученица В. Л. Комарова"
^ International Plant Names Index. Losinsk.