# Joan Cribb

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Australian botanist and mycologist (1930–2023)

**Joan Winifred Cribb** [OAM](/source/Medal_of_the_Order_of_Australia) (née **Herbert**; 14 April 1930 – 17 October 2023) was an Australian botanist and [mycologist](/source/Mycology).

## Life and career

Joan Winifred Herbert was born in [Brisbane](/source/Brisbane), Queensland, the daughter of botanists Vera and [Desmond Herbert](/source/Desmond_Herbert).[1] She graduated from the [University of Queensland](/source/University_of_Queensland) with a Bachelor of Science with Honours and a Master of Science. She married fellow botanist [Alan Cribb](/source/Alan_Cribb) in 1954, and several years later joined him at the University of Queensland as a part-time lecturer and tutor.[2]

Cribb specialised in [gasteroid fungi](/source/Gasteroid_fungi), describing twenty-one new species in that group, as well as fourteen new species of [marine fungi](/source/Marine_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 the [Australian Natural History Medallion](/source/Australian_Natural_History_Medallion) in 1994. In the [2020 Australia Day Honours](/source/2020_Australia_Day_Honours) she was awarded the [Medal of the Order of Australia](/source/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 genus *[Cribbea](/source/Cribbea)* was named after her.[6] Fungus species named after her include *[Hymenogaster cribbiae](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cortinarius_cribbiae&action=edit&redlink=1)*[7] and *[Stephanospora cribbae](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stephanospora_cribbae&action=edit&redlink=1)*.[8]

The standard [author abbreviation](/source/List_of_botanists_by_author_abbreviation_(A)) J.W.Cribb is used to indicate this person as the author when [citing](/source/Author_citation_(botany)) a [botanical name](/source/Botanical_name).[9]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_1-1) ["Cribb, Joan Winifred"](http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/cribb-joan.html). *anbg.gov.au*. Retrieved 20 March 2018.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-eoas_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-eoas_2-1) Alafaci, Annette. ["Cribb, Joan Winnifred (1930 – )"](http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004773b.htm). *Encyclopedia of Australian Science*. Retrieved 17 February 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Kohlmeyer_2013_3-0)** Kohlmeyer, Jan; Kohlmeyer, Erika (2013). [*Marine Mycology: The Higher Fungi*](https://books.google.com/books?id=MC7LBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA54). Elsevier. p. 54. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-4832-7014-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4832-7014-2).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Mrs Joan Winifred Cribb"](https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2005796). *It's An Honour*. Retrieved 2 March 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Joan Winifred Cribb"](https://www.mytributes.com.au/notice/death-notices/cribb-joan-winifred/6136266/). *My Tributes*. Retrieved 18 November 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-chah_6-0)** ["Cribb, Joan Winifred (1930 – )"](https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/cribb-joan.html). *Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria*. Retrieved 17 February 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Smith_1966_7-0)** Smith, Alexander H. (1966). ["Notes on *Dendrogaster*, *Gymnoglossum*, *Protoglossum* and species of *Hymenogaster*"](http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59350/0058/001/0105.htm). *Mycologia*. **58** (1): 100–124 (see p. 105). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2307/3756992](https://doi.org/10.2307%2F3756992). [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [3756992](https://www.jstor.org/stable/3756992).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Lebel_2015_8-0)** Lebel, Teresa; Castellano, Michael A.; Beever, Ross E. (2015). "Cryptic diversity in the sequestrate genus *Stephanospora* (Stephanosporaceae: Agaricales) in Australasia". *Fungal Diversity*. **119** (4): 210–228. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[2015FunB..119..201L](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015FunB..119..201L). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1016/j.funbio.2014.12.007](https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.funbio.2014.12.007). [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [25813509](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25813509).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [International Plant Names Index](/source/International_Plant_Names_Index). [*J.W.Cribb*](https://www.ipni.org/search?q=author%20std%3AJ.W.Cribb).

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