Russia Flora: Plant: Shrub, up to 4.5 m tall. Upper buds lanceolate, about 1 cm long; scales light brown, densely tomentose with reddish-brown stellate hairs, transversely rugose at margin. Young shoots densely stellate-pubescent. Leaves: Leaf blade entire, dentate, commonly elliptic, shortly acuminate at apex, rounded or broadly cuneate at base, (3)5-8(9) cm long and 1.5-5 cm wide, upper surface sparsely stellate-pubescent and pilose along veins, lower surface ± densely stellate-pubescent (mainly along veins). Petiole 1-2.3 cm long, ± densely stellate-pubescent. Inflorescence: 2.5-7 cm in diameter, on peduncle up to 3 cm long. Bracts and bracteoles 1-5 mm long. Flowers: Corolla white or creamy-white, almost rotate. Fruit: Ellipsoid or broadly ellipsoid, 10-13 mm long, turning red when ripening, then becoming black. Chromosome number: 2n=18 (Rudyka, 1984).

Distribution: Upper Zeya, Lower Zeya, Bureya, Ussuri regions (Fig. 93). Found in mixed coniferous-broadleaved forests, on steep slopes, along river and stream valleys. Flowering in June-July.

Notes: Ornamental shrub, resistant to urban conditions but rare in landscaping; good honey plant. Fruits edible, sweet; promising for selective breeding for pulp size.

General distribution: Mongolia (Greater Khingan region), Japanese-Chinese (Northeast China, Korean Peninsula). Described from Khabarovsk: "From the Bureya or Khingan Mountains, R. Maack" (type - LE).

Additional note: In most recent compilations (Poyarkova, 1958; Vorobyov et al., 1966; Voroshilov, 1966, 1982), the Latin name is transliterated strictly according to rules as "Viburnum burejense". However, in this case, there was an error in the protologue, which one of the species' authors, F.E. Herder, tried to correct by creating a nomenclatural synonym. Since the species was described from the Bureya Mountains near the Amur River, it should be named "Bureya Viburnum" or "Bureinskaya Viburnum". In Chita region, this viburnum is replaced by the closely related V. mongolicum (Pall.) Rehd., while in Buryatia, viburnum species from the typical section are not found.