Planar is a manufacturing method. Read the linked lab document, it describes how planar transistors are made. It just means that it was manufactured on the plane of a silicon wafer. This is opposed to mechanically combining semiconductor materials, like they did when the transistors were first invented.
And by standalone, I meant just a singe transistor in the package. With the advanced ICs, manufacturers get creative and making all sorts of 3D structures (FinFET and stuff like this).
It is hard to put useful features in the header for a generic transistor. So, marketing got creative and put random stuff there. Happens all the time.