Commemorating Eduard August von Regel (1815–92), German botanist and Director of the Imperial Bot.Garden, St Petersburg, Russia 1855–66 and 1875–92.
Stiff shrubs. Leaves opposite, decussate, small, often 5-veined. Flower clusters in dense heads or short spikes, terminal at first but overtopped by new growth. Flowers stalkless, pink to purplish or red. Sepals and petals 5. Stamens numerous, united into 5 bundles opposite to and longer than the petals; anthers attached at the base. Ovary 3-chambered with 4 ovules per chamber. Fruit a 3-valved woody capsule.
Grown for the attractive flowers and formal foliage textures.
5 species confined to SW WA.
Seed but most will also grow from cuttings.
Flowers often male only; staminal filaments attached at the base of the anther (not versatile as in Melaleuca); ovary of 3 chambers, each with 4 ovules and eventually mostly 1-2 seeds (Beaufortia has 1 ovule).
Source: (2002). Myrtaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.