diff --git a/fsl/utils/filetree/query.py b/fsl/utils/filetree/query.py
index ac66091cd60c9fe273b0d939cfd20c3338bbeb7c..6407b14e3a39a2c59bb12502f21f6dc0512f0eed 100644
--- a/fsl/utils/filetree/query.py
+++ b/fsl/utils/filetree/query.py
@@ -48,9 +48,8 @@ class FileTreeQuery(object):
     short name that are present. The :meth:`query` method can be used to
     retrieve files which match a specific template, and variable values.
 
-    The :meth:`query` method returns a multi-dimensional ``numpy.array``
-    which contains :class:`Match` objects, where each dimension one
-    represents variable for the template in question.
+    The :meth:`query` method returns a collection of :class:`Match` objects,
+    each of which represents one file which matches the query.
 
     Example usage::