diff --git a/mpidep/mpidep.cc b/mpidep/mpidep.cc
index 979389bd5a8bd802e4f56f4304d05a25e98cb0a6..2beaba67aa5f4636e64dd041086d699d79530795 100644
--- a/mpidep/mpidep.cc
+++ b/mpidep/mpidep.cc
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ extern "C" {
 #endif
 
 /*
- * Predict the local MPI process rank before having called MPI::Init
+ * Predict the local MPI process rank before having called MPI_Init
  *
  * MPI implementations typically passes meta information either through
  * argc and argv (MPICH) or through the environment (OpenMPI).