Myoporum rapense is a plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to French Polynesia and the Kermadec Islands.

Myoporum rapense is sometimes a low shrub and sometimes a tree growing to a height of 13 metres (40 ft) with branches that have raised leaf scars.

[3][4] The flowers are borne singly or in groups of up to 5 in the axils of leaves on stalks 6–20 millimetres (0.2–0.8 in) long and have 5 pointed sepals and 5 petals forming a bell-shaped tube.

[3][4] Myoporum rapense was first formally described in 1935 by Forest B. H. Brown and the description was published in Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin.

[3] There are two subspecies: Myoporum rapense is found on the Austral and Kermadec Islands where it grows in coastal scrub, woodland, sand dunes or volcanic soils often on rocky hillsides.