Joan Winifred Cribb OAM (née Herbert; 14 April 1930 – 17 October 2023) was an Australian botanist and mycologist.
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.
[2] For over 45 years Joan Cribb travelled over Queensland discovering and recording gasteromycetes.
Cribb was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion in 1994.
[6] Fungus species named after her include Hymenogaster cribbiae[7] and Stephanospora cribbae.