In the Araceae, the individual flowers are small and inconspicuous (as you will see shortly, it is the inflorecences that is conspicuous). The flowers may be perfect or imperfect, and the latter case the plants may be monoecious or dioecious. The number of sepals and petals vary from zero to three, and there the number of stamens is also variable. The gynoecium is syncarpous from 2 to 4 carpels, and the ovary is superior.