OK. My hot take is, those circled "diodes" are antenna diodes
baked into the standard cell layout. The recognition layer may
be to help antenna rule checks or may be to apply "special
rules" to what may be a "sub-minimum", special purpose device.
However, to my eye these diodes lack "active" and "contact"
and counter-dope layers (P+ in Nw or N+ in Pw). Maybe those
last are turned off, or Booleaned off the active*well_type, or
are line-on-line "keyholed" such that I can't make it out (I
always, always make my own private layer table with N, P
features' fill stipple and color set up so I can see them plainly -
since I'm an old bipolar analog guy and stacked juctions is
how we roll).
If those features are missing then those diodes would be
malformed and righteously unrecognized. However, I'd
hope that a well constructed extract / drc rules combo would
somehow light up "unrecognized" features for this kind of
reason.