Tasmannia xerophila (Parment.) M.Gray

Bushy shrubs to small trees, 0.6–4 m high, usually clumped due to root suckering; branchlets finely tuberculate, reddish to brown. Leaves: petiole 2–6 mm long; lamina oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, (2–) 3–14 cm long, 0.5–3 cm wide, coriaceous; base cuneate or attenuate; apex obtuse. Male flowers: pedicels 7–23 mm long; stamens 9–30; sterile carpel 1 (or 2). Female flowers: pedicels 5–16 mm long; petals 2 (–4), 5–7 mm long, 1–2 mm wide; carpels 1–8 (–11), sessile; ovules 2–9. Apocarps globose to ovoid, 6.5–11 mm long, glossy black to glaucous; transversely septate pulpa absent; stipes 0.1–0.2 mm long. Seeds 2–7, slightly curved, 2.5–3.5 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide.

It is a temperate plant. At Arboretum Tasmania.

The leaves are used a as substitute for black pepper.