Joan Marjorie Dingley OBE (14 May 1916 – 1 January 2008)[2] was one of the pioneer women of New Zealand science.
She was a major research scientist in New Zealand for both laboratory and field-based plant pathology, and for taxonomic mycology.
She was the second-youngest child in the family, who re-located to the Auckland suburb of Remuera in the early 1920s, where Dingley would live for the rest of her life.
[5] Dingley developed the New Zealand Fungal Herbarium, building specimen numbers from 4,000 to 35,000 by the time she retired.
[1][9][10] She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1995 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to botany.