diff --git a/ompi/mca/btl/mvapi/help-mpi-btl-mvapi.txt b/ompi/mca/btl/mvapi/help-mpi-btl-mvapi.txt
index c8115a49b1..f986bef2f4 100644
--- a/ompi/mca/btl/mvapi/help-mpi-btl-mvapi.txt
+++ b/ompi/mca/btl/mvapi/help-mpi-btl-mvapi.txt
@@ -25,12 +25,12 @@ The total number of times that the sender wishes the receiver to retry tim-
 eout, packet sequence, etc. errors before posting a completion error.
 
 Note that two mca parameters are involved here: 
-btl_openib_ib_retry_count - The number of times the sender will attempt to
+btl_mvapi_ib_retry_count - The number of times the sender will attempt to
 retry  (defaulted to 7, the maximum value). 
 
-btl_openib_ib_timeout - The local ack timeout parameter (defaulted to 10). The
+btl_mvapi_ib_timeout - The local ack timeout parameter (defaulted to 10). The
 actual timeout value used is calculated as: 
-(4.096 micro-seconds * 2^btl_openib_ib_timeout). 
+(4.096 micro-seconds * 2^btl_mvapi_ib_timeout). 
 See InfiniBand Spec 1.2 (12.7.34) for more details.
 
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