Under the treatment of the name as Allium tuncelianum, this species was published in Kew Bulletin 50(4): 723 (1995) "Plant Name Details for Allium tuncelianum". IPNI. Retrieved July 27, 2010. basionym: A. macrochaetum subsp. tuncelianum Kollmann
This species was originally described and published, as Allium macrochaetum subsp. tuncelianum, in Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 41(2): 262. 1983. Edinburgh and Glasgow "Plant Name Details for Allium macrochaetum subsp. tuncelianum". IPNI. Retrieved July 27, 2010.