diff --git a/jax/experimental/mesh_utils.py b/jax/experimental/mesh_utils.py
index 0807535ebf0d..faf48a841f07 100644
--- a/jax/experimental/mesh_utils.py
+++ b/jax/experimental/mesh_utils.py
@@ -137,8 +137,6 @@ def _create_device_mesh_for_nd_torus(
       physical topology.
     mesh_shape: shape of the logical mesh (size of the various logical
       parallelism axes), with axes ordered by increasing network intensity.
-    prefer_symmetric: whether to prefer to assign a logical axis to multiple
-      physical axes of the same size rather than axes of different sizes.
 
   Returns:
     An np.ndarray of devices in the shape of the logical mesh (mesh_shape), with