 Vol.138 Issue 5 on pages 502–511 and (as "Iris lineolata" ) by Nazarova in 2004 on pages 1–171 in Chromosome Numbers of Flowering Plants of Armenian Flora.The Latin specific epithet "lineolata" comes from the Latin word "linea", meaning ‘line’, and "-ola", the latter, a suffix used to indicate small size.It was first published by Brian Mathew & Per Erland Berg Wendelbo in Fl.