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.

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