Tasmannia vickeryana, commonly known as Baw Baw pepper, 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.
Description 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.
Taxonomy 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. In 1969, Smith transferred the species to Tasmannia as T. vickeryana in the journal Taxon.
Distribution and habitat Baw Baw pepper grows in snow gum woodland in the Baw Baw Range at altitudes between .
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