Parents Desmond Herbert | ||
Books Wild Food in Australia, Wild Medicine in Australia | ||
Joan Winifred Cribb (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.
Cribb specialised in gasteroid fungi, describing twenty-one new species in that group, as well as fourteen new species of marine fungi. She and her husband also investigated algae-inhabiting fungi found in marine habitats.
She was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion in 1994. The Cribbea genus of secotioid fungi was named after her. Fungus species named after her include Hymenogaster cribbiae and Stephanospora cribbae.