Agnia Losina-Losinskaja

Agnia Sergeyevna Losina-Losinskaja
Born 1903
Died 1958
Nationality Russian
Fields Botany
Author abbrev. (botany) Losinsk.

Agnia Sergeyevna Losina-Losinskaja (Агния Сергеевна Лозина-Лозинская) (1903–1958) was a Russian 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.

References

  1. ↑ "HUH Botanist Record". Harvard University Herbaria (online). Retrieved 2014-05-15.
  2. ↑ 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: 377–393, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1992.tb00280.x, see References
  3. ↑ "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.)
  4. ↑ History of the Study of Rhubarb (in Russian), Russian State Agrarian University (РОССИЙСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ АГРАРНЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ), retrieved 2014-05-15
  5. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ Komarov, V.L. (ed.), 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"
  7. ↑ 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"
  8. ↑ "Author Query for 'Losinsk.'". International Plant Names Index.


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