Joan Cribb

Joan Winifred Herbert was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the daughter of botanists Vera and Desmond Herbert. 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.{{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}}

Cribb specialised in gasteroid fungi, describing twenty-one new species in that group, as well as fourteen new species of marine fungi. For over 45 years Joan Cribb travelled over Queensland discovering and recording gasteromycetes.{{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}} She and her husband also investigated algae-inhabiting fungi found in marine habitats 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 Medal of the Order of Australia for "service to higher education as a botanist, and to the community".{{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}}

Cribb died on 17 October 2023, at the age of 93.{{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}}

The secotioid fungi genus Cribbea was named after her.{{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}} Fungus species named after her include Hymenogaster cribbiae and Stephanospora cribbae.

{{botanist|J.W.Cribb}}

{{Reflist|refs=

{{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}}

{{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 }}

{{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. 105) |url=http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59350/0058/001/0105.htm |doi=10.2307/3756992|jstor=3756992 }}

}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cribb, Joan}}

Category:1930 births

Category:2023 deaths

Category:20th-century Australian botanists

Category:Australian mycologists

Category:University of Queensland alumni

Category:Academic staff of the University of Queensland

Category:Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia

Category:20th-century Australian women scientists

Category:Scientists from Brisbane