Tasmannia xerophila, commonly known as alpine pepperbush,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Winteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia.

It is a bushy shrub to small tree with lance-shaped leaves, the narrower end towards the base.

[6] In 1976, Max Gray transferred the species to Tasmannia and legitimised the name T. zerophila in Contributions from the Herbarium Australiense.

[7] In 1994, Ruth E. Raleigh and others described subspecies robusta, and the name, and that of the autonym are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:[8] Subspecies robusta grows in tall, open forest on Mount Ellery and Goonmirk Rocks in East Gippsland, Victoria.

[10][11] Subspecies xerophila has a wider distribution in open forest, woodland or subalpine grassland from the central highland of southern New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory to the eastern parts of the Great Dividing Range in Victoria, where it often grows in snow gum woodland.