diff --git a/flang/include/flang/Parser/openmp-utils.h b/flang/include/flang/Parser/openmp-utils.h
index bf54f970a7d3a..77c31b939e522 100644
--- a/flang/include/flang/Parser/openmp-utils.h
+++ b/flang/include/flang/Parser/openmp-utils.h
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ struct ConstructId {
   }
 
 MAKE_CONSTR_ID(OpenMPDeclarativeAllocate, D::OMPD_allocate);
-MAKE_CONSTR_ID(OpenMPDeclarativeAssumes, D::OMPD_assumes);
 MAKE_CONSTR_ID(OpenMPDeclareReductionConstruct, D::OMPD_declare_reduction);
 MAKE_CONSTR_ID(OpenMPExecutableAllocate, D::OMPD_allocate);
 MAKE_CONSTR_ID(OpenMPRequiresConstruct, D::OMPD_requires);
@@ -94,7 +93,6 @@ struct DirectiveNameScope {
       if constexpr (std::is_base_of_v<OmpBlockConstruct, T>) {
         return std::get<OmpBeginDirective>(x.t).DirName();
       } else if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, OpenMPDeclarativeAllocate> ||
-          std::is_same_v<T, OpenMPDeclarativeAssumes> ||
           std::is_same_v<T, OpenMPDeclareReductionConstruct> ||
           std::is_same_v<T, OpenMPExecutableAllocate> ||
           std::is_same_v<T, OpenMPRequiresConstruct>) {
diff --git a/flang/include/flang/Parser/parse-tree.h b/flang/include/flang/Parser/parse-tree.h
index 486be8b60ff8c..bd55166eb9f80 100644
--- a/flang/include/flang/Parser/parse-tree.h
+++ b/flang/include/flang/Parser/parse-tree.h
@@ -4877,8 +4877,8 @@ struct OpenMPUtilityConstruct {
 //   ASSUMES absent-clause | contains-clause | holds-clause | no-openmp-clause |
 //          no-openmp-routines-clause | no-parallelism-clause
 struct OpenMPDeclarativeAssumes {
-  TUPLE_CLASS_BOILERPLATE(OpenMPDeclarativeAssumes);
-  std::tuple<Verbatim, OmpClauseList> t;
+  WRAPPER_CLASS_BOILERPLATE(
+      OpenMPDeclarativeAssumes, OmpDirectiveSpecification);
   CharBlock source;
 };
 
diff --git a/flang/lib/Parser/openmp-parsers.cpp b/flang/lib/Parser/openmp-parsers.cpp
index bd080386c0aea..5fd3c1768a17f 100644
--- a/flang/lib/Parser/openmp-parsers.cpp
+++ b/flang/lib/Parser/openmp-parsers.cpp
@@ -1853,7 +1853,9 @@ TYPE_PARSER(
 
 // Assumes Construct
 TYPE_PARSER(sourced(construct<OpenMPDeclarativeAssumes>(
-    verbatim("ASSUMES"_tok), Parser<OmpClauseList>{})))
+    predicated(OmpDirectiveNameParser{},
+        IsDirective(llvm::omp::Directive::OMPD_assumes)) >=
+    Parser<OmpDirectiveSpecification>{})))
 
 // Declarative constructs
 TYPE_PARSER(
diff --git a/flang/lib/Parser/unparse.cpp b/flang/lib/Parser/unparse.cpp
index a2b0b9ef3196c..9812a656092ac 100644
--- a/flang/lib/Parser/unparse.cpp
+++ b/flang/lib/Parser/unparse.cpp
@@ -2558,8 +2558,8 @@ class UnparseVisitor {
 
   void Unparse(const OpenMPDeclarativeAssumes &x) {
     BeginOpenMP();
-    Word("!$OMP ASSUMES ");
-    Walk(std::get<OmpClauseList>(x.t));
+    Word("!$OMP ");
+    Walk(x.v);
     Put("\n");
     EndOpenMP();
   }
diff --git a/flang/lib/Semantics/check-omp-structure.cpp b/flang/lib/Semantics/check-omp-structure.cpp
index 9c1c614654b51..9d73b8dfc29d5 100644
--- a/flang/lib/Semantics/check-omp-structure.cpp
+++ b/flang/lib/Semantics/check-omp-structure.cpp
@@ -620,10 +620,6 @@ template <typename Checker> struct DirectiveSpellingVisitor {
     checker_(GetDirName(x.t).source, Directive::OMPD_allocators);
     return false;
   }
-  bool Pre(const parser::OpenMPDeclarativeAssumes &x) {
-    checker_(std::get<parser::Verbatim>(x.t).source, Directive::OMPD_assumes);
-    return false;
-  }
   bool Pre(const parser::OpenMPGroupprivate &x) {
     checker_(x.v.DirName().source, Directive::OMPD_groupprivate);
     return false;
diff --git a/flang/test/Parser/OpenMP/assumption.f90 b/flang/test/Parser/OpenMP/assumption.f90
index 0f333f99f9085..86cbad9e42f78 100644
--- a/flang/test/Parser/OpenMP/assumption.f90
+++ b/flang/test/Parser/OpenMP/assumption.f90
@@ -141,9 +141,11 @@ program p
 end program p
 
 !UNPARSE: PROGRAM p
-!UNPARSE: !$OMP ASSUMES  NO_OPENMP
+!UNPARSE: !$OMP ASSUMES NO_OPENMP
 !UNPARSE: END PROGRAM p
 
-!PARSE-TREE: OpenMPDeclarativeConstruct -> OpenMPDeclarativeAssumes
-!PARSE-TREE: | Verbatim
+!PARSE-TREE: OpenMPDeclarativeConstruct -> OpenMPDeclarativeAssumes -> OmpDirectiveSpecification
+!PARSE-TREE: | OmpDirectiveName -> llvm::omp::Directive = assumes
 !PARSE-TREE: | OmpClauseList -> OmpClause -> NoOpenmp
+!PARSE-TREE: | Flags = None
+!PARSE-TREE: ImplicitPart ->