Joan Cribb

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.