praeceps is a subspecies of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, endemic to the North Island of New Zealand.

Plants of this species of forget-me-not are perennial rosettes with partially bracteate inflorescences and white corollas with exserted stamens.

[4] It was transferred to subspecies rank under Myosotis pansa by (L.B.Moore) Meudt, Prebble, R.J.Stanley and Thorsen in 2013.

praeceps was collected by Anthony P. Druce in 1972 at Waikawau Beach, and is lodged at the Allan Herbarium of Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research (CHR 208886).

praeceps is found in coastal areas of Waikato and northern Taranaki on the North Island, whereas M. pansa subsp.

praeceps the inflorescences are partially bracteate (i.e. there are cauline leaves associated with the lowest 1–3 or up to 9 flowers, whereas in subsp.

praeceps were included in two studies that phylogenetically analysed amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs).

The upper surface of the leaf is uniformly or patchily covered in straight, appressed, antrorse (forward-facing) hairs.

Each rosette has multiple ascending, once-branched or rarely unbranched partially bracteate inflorescences that are up to 490 mm long.

The calyx is 2 to 4 mm long at flowering and 3 to 9 mm long at fruiting, lobed to half to most of its length, and sparsely to densely covered in straight to curved, appressed to patent, antrorse hairs.