diff --git a/recipes/openpmix/meta.yaml b/recipes/openpmix/meta.yaml
index 494917a026e6e..ff965a9bd1c10 100644
--- a/recipes/openpmix/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/openpmix/meta.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 {% set version = "5.0.4" %}
 
 package:
-  name: {{ name | lower }}
+  # don't usually want top-level name to match any outputs,
+  # but staged-recipes doesn't resolve dependency properly without it;
+  # rename on feedstock
+  name: libpmix
   version: {{ version }}
 
 source: