The leaf margin is crenulate (finely scalloped) to regular serrulate (sawlike). Leaves are finely serrulate, pubescent or silky when young. The plant bears ovate-lanceolate leaves, with margins minutely serrulate, very rough, often inrolled. The margins are sharp, razorlike and entire to finely serrulate, apex narrowly acute to short-subulate. The leaf margins are serrulate to crenulate with incurved teeth. The leaves are up to long, thick and firm, with entire to serrulate margins. Leaves opposite, leaf margin entire or serrulate. Like other "Impatiens" species it has thick stems, the leaves have a serrulate margin.