 The taxon "Camphorosmeae" has been published in 1837 by Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher as a subtribe within the Chenopodieae.Alfred Moquin-Tandon classified it as a tribe in 1840, and raised it to subfamily level as "Camphorosmoideae" in 1978.Phylogenetic research by Kadereit & Freitag (2011) revealed that the traditional classification of the group did not reflect evolutionary relationships.