Joan Winifred CribbOAM (néeHerbert; 14 April 1930 – 17 October 2023) was an Australian botanist andmycologist.
Joan Winifred Herbert was born inBrisbane, Queensland, the daughter of botanists Vera andDesmond Herbert.[1] She graduated from theUniversity of Queensland with a Bachelor of Science with Honours and a Master of Science. She married fellow botanistAlan Cribb in 1954, and several years later joined him at the University of Queensland as a part-time lecturer and tutor.[2]
Cribb specialised ingasteroid fungi, describing twenty-one new species in that group, as well as fourteen new species ofmarine fungi.[2] For over 45 years Joan Cribb travelled over Queensland discovering and recording gasteromycetes.[1] She and her husband also investigated algae-inhabiting fungi found in marine habitats[3] and have recorded occurrences of freshwater fungi in Queensland waterways.
Cribb was awarded theAustralian Natural History Medallion in 1994. In the2020 Australia Day Honours she was awarded theMedal of the Order of Australia for "service to higher education as a botanist, and to the community".[4]
Cribb died on 17 October 2023, at the age of 93.[5]
The secotioid fungi genusCribbea was named after her.[6] Fungus species named after her includeHymenogaster cribbiae[7] andStephanospora cribbae.[8]
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