Ocotea puberula is a species of flowering plant in genus Ocotea of the family Lauraceae. It is an evergreen tree native to the tropical Americas, ranging through tropical Mexico and from Costa Rica and Panama through tropical South America to northern Argentina. It grows in moist lowland and montane tropical and subtropical forests up to 1,600 meters elevation.

The species was first described as Laurus puberula by Louis Claude Richard in 1792. In 1836 Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck placed it in genus Ocotea as Ocotea puberula.