Prunus huantensis is a South American tree native to mountain forests of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. It may be a synonym of Prunus brittoniana.
It is a shrub or tree up to tall, with brown lenticellate branchlets. The leaves are long, wide; ovate, with a rounded base; rigid, coriaceous; shortly denticulate. Flowers arranged in an elongated raceme up to 17 cm long; sepals 1 mm long; petals up to long. The fruits are black, spherical, up to wide.
Names recorded for this species are: inca-inca (in central Peru); pipe (in Pataz Province, northern Peru); pandala or pundé (southern Colombia); sacha capulÃÂ, capulÃÂ, laurel or canelón (in Ecuador).
Prunus huantensis can be found in mountain forests at elevations of , from southern Colombia to central Peru.