pansa, also known as the Waitakere forget-me-not, 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 ebracteate inflorescences and white corollas with exserted stamens.

[4] The lectotype specimen of Myosotis pansa was collected by Donald Petrie, south of Karekare, Waitākere Ranges, Auckland, and is lodged at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington (WELT SP002432).

[4][5] The specific epithet, pansa, is based on the Latin word pansus which means to spread out.

Lucy Moore did not explain why she chose this name,[2] but it could refer to the spreading petal lobes mentioned in her description.

praeceps is found further south, in coastal areas of Waikato and Taranaki on the North Island.

pansa 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 ebracteate inflorescences that are up to 490 mm (19 in) long.

pansa is 2n = 44 for two Auckland War Memorial Museum specimens collected from the Waitākere Ranges.

pansa is endemic to the North Island of New Zealand in the Auckland region, from sea level to 200 m (660 ft) ASL.