diff --git a/l3backend/l3backend-color.dtx b/l3backend/l3backend-color.dtx
index d488b9a8d7..076364c4cf 100644
--- a/l3backend/l3backend-color.dtx
+++ b/l3backend/l3backend-color.dtx
@@ -1449,8 +1449,7 @@ ltxcolor.select = select
 %   }
 %   We abstract the idea of different types of node where it makes sense:
 %   notice for example that in contrast to \pkg{luacolor} we extract some
-%   one-off information in the function that needs it. We also use a single
-%   local \enquote{map} for the node values.
+%   one-off information in the function that needs it.
 %    \begin{macrocode}
 local id_list         = 1
 local id_list_leaders = 2