Giuseppe Gibelli (9 February 1831 – 16 September 1898) was an Italian botanist and lichenologist who was a native of Santa Cristina e Bissone.
He originally studied medicine, earning his medical doctorate at the University of Pavia.
Gibelli is remembered for his pioneer studies of mycorrhiza, the symbiotic association between fungus and plant roots.
With Giovanni Passerini (1816-1893) and Vincenzo de Cesati (1806-1883), he was co-author of Compendio della flora italiana, a compendium of Italian flora.
[4] Then in 1959, Gibellulopsis, a genus of fungi belonging to the family Plectosphaerellaceae.