A.B. Cribb

collected 1948–1971

106 specimens, collected between 1948 and 1971 on 54 collecting days. Identified 26 specimens for others.

See the specimens

Specimens: 106
Type specimens: 0
Years in the field: 24
Islands: 8
Species: 84
Identifications: 26
In the Library: 0
Named after: 1

Where Cribb collected

Specimens by decade

1940s1970s

Earliest: Feldmannia indica, 1948 (Nerang River, Southport). Latest: Pandanus tectorius, 1971.

Named for Cribb

Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name Cribb. The naming author’s intent is not recorded, so where several collectors share a surname they are listed under the best-known one.

Corynocarpus cribbianus Corynocarpaceae15

From the field

As a determiner

26 specimens carry this name as the person who identified them. Most often:

Ulva reticulata4
Dictyopteris2
Seirococcus axillaris1
Colpomenia sinuosa1
Polysiphonia mollis1
Halimeda macroloba1
Metagoniolithon1
Sporochnus apodus1
Padina gymnospora1
Halimeda cuneata1