Tasmannia vickeryana, commonly known as Baw Baw pepper,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Winteraceae and is endemic to Victoria in Australia. It has narrowly lance-shaped leaves, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, and male and female flowers on separate plants, the male flowers with 8 to 26 stamens and the female flowers with up to 5 carpels. The fruit is dark red and contains 2 to 5 seeds.
Tasmannia vickeryana is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has reddish-brown branchlets. Its leaves are lance-shaped, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, on a petiole long. Male and female flowers are borne on separate plants and usually have 2 egg-shaped to oblong petals long and about wide. Male flowers are borne on a pedicel long and have 8 to 26 stamens, and female flowers are on a pedicel long with up to 6 carpels with 3 to 6 ovules. Flowering occurs in December and January and the fruit is a spherical to oval, dark red berry long with 2 to 5 seeds long.[2] [3]
This species was first described in 1943 by Albert Charles Smith who gave it the name Drimys vickeryana in the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum.[4] [5] In 1969, Smith transferred the species to Tasmannia as T. vickeryana in the journal Taxon.[6]
Baw Baw pepper grows in snow gum woodland in the Baw Baw Range at altitudes between .