Instead, he discovered that the leaf vascular bundles, arising from vascular precursor cells called the procambium, were initiated discontinuously in association with the emerging leaf primordia in the SAM (Figure 19.17A). (...) The portion of the vascular bundle that enters the leaf was later called the leaf trace (Figure 19.17B).
"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.









