Tracheids are elongated, dead cells with hard lignified walls, wide lumens and narrow walls with spiral, annular, reticulate, scalariform and pitted thickening but without perforated end walls of septa.
That is, they have intact end walls unlike vessels.
Vessels are long cylindrical tube like structures made of many cells, called vessel members, each with lignified walls and a large central cavity.
Vessel members are interconnected through perforation in their common walls.
