Tasmannia vickeryana

Tasmannia vickeryana, commonly known as Baw Baw pepper,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Winteraceae and is endemic to Victoria in Australia.

Male flowers are borne on a pedicel 3–8 mm (0.12–0.31 in) long and have 8 to 26 stamens, and female flowers are on a pedicel 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) 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 6–12 mm (0.24–0.47 in) long with 2 to 5 seeds 2.3–3.0 mm (0.091–0.118 in) long.

[2][3][4] 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.

[5][6] In 1969, Smith transferred the species to Tasmannia as T. vickeryana in the journal Taxon.