A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

-collis,-e (adj.B): -necked, -collared [> L. collum,-i (s.n.II), q.v., the neck of man and animals; (generally) the neck-like prolongation of an organ; the point of junction between two organs; (in bryophytes) the sterile basal portion of a capsule, often strongly differentiated, the tapered base, or neck, of the capsule; collar, q.v.;

NOTE: to be distinguished from -cola,-ae (s.f.I), q.v.

NOTE: cf. collis,-is (s.m.III), abl.sg. colle: a hill, high ground;

- brevicollis,-e (adj.B), with a short neck; curvicollis, with a curved neck; flexicollis,-e (adj.B), with a flexed or flexuose neck; longicollis,-e (adj.B), with a long neck.

- [moss] theca minima horizontalis inclinata ovalis aperta cylindracea brevicollis (C. Muell.), theca [i.e. capsule] very small, inclined, horizontal, oval, open, cylindraceous, with a short neck.

- [moss] thecis crasso-ovalibus pyriformibus pendulis brunneo - fuscis brevicollis (C. Muell.), with the thecae thick-oval, pyriform, pendulous, brown to grayish-brown, with a short neck.

[insect] Nebria brevicollis, the short-collared gazelle beetle.

[fossil] Sigilmassasaurus brevicollis: the epithet, brevicollis, alludes to the neck vertebrae being unusually short from front to back.

[insect] Anoplognathus brevicollis, referring to its short pronotum (i.e. the part of the thorax immediately behind the head, the ‘neck.’

[reptile] Chelodina longicollis, the long-necked or snake-nected turtle; which bends its long, singuose neck back into its shell, rather than pulling is head back.

[moss] Encalypta brevicollis, in allusion to the short neck of the capsule.