diff --git a/distributed/protocol/cupy.py b/distributed/protocol/cupy.py
index fc6e0d0871..2cc2169b07 100644
--- a/distributed/protocol/cupy.py
+++ b/distributed/protocol/cupy.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ def dask_deserialize_cupy_ndarray(header, frames):
     def reduce_matdescriptor(other):
         # Pickling MatDescriptor errors
         # xref: https://github.com/cupy/cupy/issues/3061
-        return cupy.cusparse.MatDescriptor.create, ()
+        return MatDescriptor.create, ()
 
     copyreg.pickle(MatDescriptor, reduce_matdescriptor)