{{Short description|Australian botanist and mycologist (1930–2023)}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}

'''Joan Winifred Cribb''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM}} (née '''Herbert'''; 14 April 1930 – 17 October 2023) was an Australian botanist and [[mycology|mycologist]].

==Life and career== Joan Winifred Herbert was born in [[Brisbane]], Queensland, the daughter of botanists Vera and [[Desmond Herbert]].<ref name=":0" /> She graduated from the [[University of Queensland]] with a Bachelor of Science with Honours and a Master of Science. She married fellow botanist [[Alan Cribb]] in 1954, and several years later joined him at the University of Queensland as a part-time lecturer and tutor.<ref name="eoas">{{cite web|last1=Alafaci|first1=Annette|title=Cribb, Joan Winnifred (1930 – )|url=http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004773b.htm|website=Encyclopedia of Australian Science|access-date=17 February 2016}}</ref>

Cribb specialised in [[gasteroid fungi]], describing twenty-one new species in that group, as well as fourteen new species of [[marine fungi]].<ref name="eoas" /> For over 45 years Joan Cribb travelled over Queensland discovering and recording gasteromycetes.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/cribb-joan.html|title=Cribb, Joan Winifred|website=anbg.gov.au|access-date=20 March 2018}}</ref> She and her husband also investigated algae-inhabiting fungi found in marine habitats<ref name="Kohlmeyer 2013"/> and have recorded occurrences of freshwater fungi in Queensland waterways.

Cribb was awarded the [[Australian Natural History Medallion]] in 1994. In the [[2020 Australia Day Honours]] she was awarded the [[Order of Australia|Medal of the Order of Australia]] for "service to higher education as a botanist, and to the community".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mrs Joan Winifred Cribb|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2005796|access-date=2021-03-02|website=It's An Honour}}</ref>

Cribb died on 17 October 2023, at the age of 93.<ref>{{cite web |title=Joan Winifred Cribb |url=https://www.mytributes.com.au/notice/death-notices/cribb-joan-winifred/6136266/ |website=My Tributes |access-date=18 November 2023}}</ref>

The secotioid fungi genus ''[[Cribbea]]'' was named after her.<ref name="chah">{{cite web|title=Cribb, Joan Winifred (1930 – )|url=https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/cribb-joan.html|website=Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria|access-date=17 February 2016}}</ref> Fungus species named after her include ''[[Cortinarius cribbiae|Hymenogaster cribbiae]]''<ref name="Smith 1966" /> and ''[[Stephanospora cribbae]]''.<ref name="Lebel 2015" />

{{botanist|J.W.Cribb}}

==References== {{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="Kohlmeyer 2013">{{cite book |author1=Kohlmeyer, Jan |author2=Kohlmeyer, Erika |title=Marine Mycology: The Higher Fungi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MC7LBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA54 |year=2013 |publisher=Elsevier |isbn=978-1-4832-7014-2 |page=54}}</ref>

<ref name="Lebel 2015">{{cite journal |author1=Lebel, Teresa |author2=Castellano, Michael A. |author3=Beever, Ross E. |title=Cryptic diversity in the sequestrate genus ''Stephanospora'' (Stephanosporaceae: Agaricales) in Australasia |journal=Fungal Diversity |year=2015 |volume=119 |issue=4 |pages=210–228 |doi=10.1016/j.funbio.2014.12.007 |pmid=25813509|bibcode=2015FunB..119..201L }}</ref>

<ref name="Smith 1966">{{cite journal |author=Smith, Alexander H. |title=Notes on ''Dendrogaster'', ''Gymnoglossum'', ''Protoglossum'' and species of ''Hymenogaster'' |journal=Mycologia |year=1966 |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=100–124 (see p.&nbsp;105) |url=http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59350/0058/001/0105.htm |doi=10.2307/3756992|jstor=3756992 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

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