Orchid is one of the high valued in commercial floriculture. Cymbidium mosaic virus was intercepted on Phalaenopsis plants imported from Taiwan. CYMV is a regulated pest and notified in the Plant Quarantine (Regulation of import in to India) Order, 2003 to safeguard the introduction of this economically important virus. This is the first interception of this pathogen on imported Phalaenopsis plants.