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

She was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the daughter of botanist Desmond Herbert. She graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Science with Honours and a Master of Science. 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.[1]

Cribb specialised in gasteroid fungi, describing twenty-one new species in that group, as well as fourteen new species of marine fungi.[1] For over 45 years Joan Cribb travelled over Queensland discovering and recording gasteromycetes.[2] She and her husband also investigated algae-inhabiting fungi found in marine habitats[3] and have recorded occurrences of freshwater fungi in Queensland waterways.

She was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion in 1994. The secotioid fungi genus Cribbea was named after her.[4] Fungus species named after her include Hymenogaster cribbiae[5] and Stephanospora cribbae.[6]

The standard author abbreviation J.W.Cribb is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Alafaci, Annette. "Cribb, Joan Winnifred (1930 – )". Encyclopedia of Australian Science. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  2. ^ "Cribb, Joan Winifred". anbg.gov.au. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  3. ^ Kohlmeyer, Jan; Kohlmeyer, Erika (2013). Marine Mycology: The Higher Fungi. Elsevier. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-4832-7014-2.
  4. ^ "Cribb, Joan Winifred (1930 – )". Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  5. ^ Smith, Alexander H. (1966). "Notes on Dendrogaster, Gymnoglossum, Protoglossum and species of Hymenogaster". Mycologia. 58 (1): 100–124 (see p. 105). doi:10.2307/3756992.
  6. ^ Lebel, Teresa; Castellano, Michael A.; Beever, Ross E. (2015). "Cryptic diversity in the sequestrate genus Stephanospora (Stephanosporaceae: Agaricales) in Australasia". Fungal Diversity. 119: 210–228. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2014.12.007. PMID 25813509.
  7. ^ International Plant Names Index.  J.W.Cribb.


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