diff --git a/libs/partners/google-genai/langchain_google_genai/chat_models.py b/libs/partners/google-genai/langchain_google_genai/chat_models.py
index 2dab500908465..4ab073be9f660 100644
--- a/libs/partners/google-genai/langchain_google_genai/chat_models.py
+++ b/libs/partners/google-genai/langchain_google_genai/chat_models.py
@@ -463,7 +463,9 @@ class ChatGoogleGenerativeAI(BaseChatModel):
     """Number of chat completions to generate for each prompt. Note that the API may
        not return the full n completions if duplicates are generated."""
     convert_system_message_to_human: bool = False
-    "Whether to prepend a SystemMessage to the first HumanMessage or not."
+    """Whether to merge any leading SystemMessage into the following HumanMessage.
+    
+    Gemini does not support system messages; any unsupported messages will raise an error."""
 
     class Config:
         allow_population_by_field_name = True