Joan Winifred Cribb (née Herbert; born 1930) is an Australian botanist and

mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their genetics, genetic and biochemistry, biochemical properties, their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and ethnomycology, their use to humans, including as a so ...

. She was born in

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, Queensland, the daughter of botanists Vera and

Desmond Herbert Desmond Andrew Herbert (17 June 1898 – 8 September 1976) was an Australian botanist. The son of a fruit-grower, Herbert was born in Diamond Creek, Victoria in 1898; was educated at Malvern State School and the Melbourne Church of England Gr ...

. She graduated from the

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

with a Bachelor of Science with Honours and a Master of Science. She married fellow botanist

Alan Cribb Alan Cribb is an Australian botanist and mycologist and an expert in marine and freshwater algae and seaweeds. He has also written on native and wild foods of Australia. Early life Alan Bridson Cribb (Junior) was born in Ipswich, Queensland on ...

in 1954, and several years later joined him at the University of Queensland as a part-time lecturer and tutor. 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. 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

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in 1994. In the

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she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for "service to higher education as a botanist, and to the community". The secotioid fungi genus ''

Cribbea ''Cribbea'' is a genus of secotioid fungi in the family Physalacriaceae. The genus has a widespread distribution in southern temperate areas, and, according to a 2008 estimate, contains four species. A new species, '' Cribbea turbinispora'', was ...

'' was named after her. Fungus species named after her include '' Hymenogaster cribbiae'' and '' Stephanospora cribbae''.

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